Sheryl Denise Taylor was 12 when she disappeared from Picher, Oklahoma, on the evening of July 20, 1978. She left home on foot to go to a nearby grocery store and was last seen between 7:15 and 7:30 p.m., barefoot and wearing a sweatshirt and yellow shorts. Reports differ on her final sighting: some place her in front of the grocery store while others say she was a couple of blocks from home, possibly with friends on bicycles.

Sheryl’s family had recently moved to Picher from Nowata County and left town just days after her disappearance; initially some suspected she had run away and might have gone to an older sister in Kansas, but that sister confirmed she had not seen Sheryl. The town had already been shaken earlier in 1978 by the deaths of two other females whose remains were found across the Kansas border. A man named Karl Lee Myers was later considered a person of interest in those cases and in Sheryl’s disappearance, but no definitive evidence has linked him to Sheryl. Foul play is now strongly suspected and the case remains open.

Did anyone in Picher or the surrounding area know Sheryl’s routines or remember seeing her that night?