On New Year’s Eve 1992, 26-year-old Cheryl Huff disappeared from Glendale Heights, Illinois. A mother of two who had recently separated from her husband Garry F. Huff, Cheryl was living with her parents while working two jobs — as a cashier at the Village Center Pharmacy and at a trucking company in Addison. That evening she left the pharmacy to meet her estranged husband at his rented room on Leslie Lane to collect a $200 child support payment and was expected to pick up her children afterward; she never arrived.

Two days later Cheryl’s gray 1991 Chevrolet Corsica was found abandoned near the apartment where she had planned to celebrate the new year with friends and family. Three weeks after her disappearance her estranged husband was arrested and, according to his confession, said he shot Cheryl multiple times on December 31 and burned her body in a 55-gallon barrel in his backyard, then placed remains in a garbage bin at his workplace, Cardinal Industries in St. Charles. Investigators recovered small bone fragments, three teeth, and a piece of human tissue matching Cheryl’s DNA from the dump site and inside the barrel. Garry pleaded not guilty at trial but was convicted of murder and sentenced to 80 years; Cheryl’s parents later adopted her two children.

Who knew Cheryl, her routines, or her movements in Glendale Heights on December 31, 1992?