One Dollar: The Disappearance of Sherry Lynn Marler

It was supposed to be a quick trip into town. Twelve-year-old Sherry Lynn Marler — Little Farmer, tractor operator, country music lover — climbed into her stepfather's red pickup truck on the morning of June 6th, 1984, and rode twelve miles from their farm into Greenville, Alabama. He had to run into the bank. He gave her a dollar for a soda from the vending machine across the street. Meet me back at the truck.

She crossed the street.

She was never seen by her family again.

In a town of 7,600 people — where everybody knew everybody, where a strange face turned heads, where the police chief would later say a child had never once gone missing in his entire life — not a single person saw Sherry Marler that morning. Not crossing the street. Not at the machine. Not walking back.

This week, we dig into one of Alabama's most haunting unsolved disappearances: a twelve-year-old who vanished between a bank and a Chevron, three separate sightings with a mystery man witnesses say she called B.J., a stepfather who declined a polygraph but was cleared anyway, a pig farm in Butler County where cadaver dogs hit on something, evidence that reportedly never made it from a local sheriff's office to the FBI, and an amateur investigator who spent over a decade chasing the truth — only to write, in a Facebook post in 2020: I know exactly where she is, what happened to her, who did it, and why. But I can't prove it.

Sherry Lynn Marler has been missing since 1984. This is her story

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