On the evening of February 27, 1991, 30-year-old Cheryl Ann Kenney closed the Quality Convenience Store on Business 71 Highway in Nevada, Missouri. Time records show she clocked out at 10:00 p.m. and the store alarm was set at 10:17 p.m. Her white Chevrolet remained in the store parking lot, and she never made it home to her husband and children.

Investigators initially considered that Cheryl might have left voluntarily; family members said she would not have abandoned her children or her ailing father, and she had only six dollars on her. Two witnesses later reported hearing a woman scream near the store around the time she disappeared. The store janitor said he had seen an unidentified man inside shortly before closing, though no connection has been established.

Cheryl’s case has been linked in investigation to two other Missouri abductions that same year: Trudy Darby, who was abducted from a convenience store and later murdered, and Angela Hammond, abducted from a payphone. Half-brothers Jesse Rush and Marvin Chaney were convicted in Darby’s murder and have been suspected in Cheryl’s disappearance, but no definitive evidence has tied them to her case. The family continues to seek answers.

Did anyone work at or visit that store in late February 1991 who remembers anything out of the ordinary that night?