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

To see more about this case, as well as the sources used to create this episode, visit our Blog Here.

Find Crime Clueless socials, website, and more here

Thank you for listening - we are grateful for you!

Support Crime Clueless - Buy Me A Coffee

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Tämä jakso on lisätty Podme-palveluun avoimen RSS-syötteen kautta eikä se ole Podmen omaa tuotantoa. Siksi jakso saattaa sisältää mainontaa.

Jaksot(151)

Will the Real Ed Edwards Please Stand Up? (part four)

Ed Edwards has spent his whole life deciding how his story goes. Now he’s sitting in a Wisconsin jail, and there’s one ending he refuses to accept. So he picks up a pen and writes a letter to Ohio, wi...

13 Marras 1h 10min

Will the Real Ed Edwards Please Stand Up? (part three)

Dannie was the kind of kid who’d disappear for weeks to follow a traveling carnival and come home like nothing happened. So when he moved in with a big, charming man named Wayne, and asked a judge to ...

11 Marras 56min

Will the Real Ed Edwards Please Stand Up? (part two)

In August 1977, Billy Lavaco and Judy Straub are found shot in Silver Creek Metro Park in Norton, Ohio, and a local man is charged on the word of a teenager in a barn. In August 1980, high school swe...

6 Marras 1h 18min

Will the Real Ed Edwards Please Stand Up (part one)

In 1962, FBI agents knock on the door of a two-room rental in Atlanta, and one of America’s ten most wanted men answers in his underwear, laughing. Ed Edwards never wore a mask, and he wanted the worl...

4 Marras 57min

The Candy Man (part two)

This is part two of two - we suggest listening to part one first, to get all the details on Halloween 1974, in Pasadena, Texas. In this episode, we talk about the cyanide, the stapler a witness saw in...

30 Loka 55min

The Candy Man (part one)

On a rainy Halloween night in 1974, two dads from church take their kids trick-or-treating in the Bowling Green neighborhood of Pasadena, Texas. It's three blocks and about thirty minutes. Somewhere a...

30 Loka 1h

The Killer Clown Murder of Marlene Warren (part two)

In September 2017, deputies stopped a Cadillac SUV five minutes from a lake house in southwest Virginia and arrested a 54-year-old woman her neighbors knew as Debbie. Twenty-seven years earlier, she ...

28 Loka 1h 9min

The Killer Clown Murder of Marlene Warren (part one)

On a rainy Saturday morning in May 1990, Marlene Warren opened her front door to a clown holding red and white carnations and a silver balloon that read “You’re the Greatest.” Without a word, the clow...

23 Loka 59min