Dr. Cherryl Pearson
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Dr. Cherryl Pearson

Dr. Cherryl Pearson went missing from Bartlett Tennessee in 2002. The night she went missing she went to a basketball game and had spent some time with friends, only to vanish. Her friends, family and co workers knew this was very out of the ordinary for Cherryl, she was a type 1 insulin dependent diabetic and had left behind all of her necessary medications. Her car would later turn up abandoned in an apartment complex nearby Cherryls home. Let’s unpack this one together, talk about the one and only suspect in this case and where it stands today.


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https://rajexperts.com/tennessee-cold-case-the-disappearance-of-dr-cherryl-pearson/

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All witnesses, purchas of interest, and suspects are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Hey, guys, welcome back to primetime crime. It's Kylie right now. In true crime. We have things that we have got to talk about. On Friday Day, John Pryor, who is Chad Davell's attorney, filed a motion to be dismissed as his attorney, which the trial was supposed to start April first. There's absolutely no way that that is going to happen now, which I was really hoping that this year was going to be the year that all of that was done and over with. But we are going to go ahead and read the motion to withdrawal that was filed. Undersigned Counsel hereby moves to withdraw as counsel from this case. Since May twenty fifth, twenty twenty one, Undersigned Counsel has represented mister Daybill in this case and the related previous case under cause number. It lists the number prior to that time. In that time, Undersigned Counsel has taken as sole counsel all matters of representation, including obtaining, reviewing discovery, conducting investigation and hiring and working with numerous experts. Mister Dabill retained undersigned counsel with personal funds. At a hearing on January nineteenth, twenty twenty three, this Court inquired of mister Dabell and declared him indigent. Pursuant to IC, mister Dabell does not have the ability to pay for counsel's continued services, and mister da Bill seeks the appointment of two capital qualified attorneys to represent him in this matter. As this Court is aware of, the case is both extraordinarily complex and the prosecution is seeking the death penalty, which requires counsel to essentially prepare for two trials. Reflecting this complexity and the work required to prepare and try this case, this Court has set aside two full months for a trial, and the prosecution team consists of no less than five attorneys from two county officers, including an out of state attorney hired at taxpayer expense. Remaining on this case would require undersigned counsel to work around the clock more than full time for more than four months, without compensation and without the assistance of any other council. This motion is made with mister Dabil's full consent mister Dabell has requested from me that he be given two qualified capital two qualified attorneys for his trial. I have made a diligent effort to find a lawyer to assist in this matter for a significant amount of time. The attorney who I located and agreed to get qualified has not been approved by the Public Defense Commission. The time for him to be of any assistance for me in preparing for this trial is long gone. Because mister da Bill is facing the death penalty and he has been interment indigent, he is entitled to appointment of two council whore capital qualified at state expense. The Idaho State Public Defense Commission maintains a roster of qualified capital attorneys. While undersigned Counsel could accept appointment to this case if it were a non capital because mister Davil is facing the death penalty, undersigned Council cannot be appointed pursue it to statute. The Council therefore moves to withdraw notice. Hereby given that on the thirtieth day of January twenty twenty four, at the hour of nine thirty am, or as soon thereafter as Counsel maybe her John Pryor, Attorney for defendant above named, we'll call up for a hearing for a defendant's motion to continue before the Honorable Judge Stephen Boyce. And that is it. So basically, what this is saying is Chad has broke as a joke and he can no longer afford to pay on Prior for all that it's going to take for him to prepare and put forward for the April first trial. Meaning John Prior is no longer going to be his counsel, and other people are going to be assigned to him and give it to him. But there is absolutely no way in hell that they are going to be ready by April first, and god knows if we're even going to get a Chad Daville trial this year. So the saga continues as the day Bill Valo World turns continues. Will definitely keep you updated. Next story I'm going to talk about is so bizarre. I do not have any like super super current updated information as to what is going on currently. But here's what we know. So three guys, three friends and potentially other people. I don't know if other people were there, but three friends in Kansas City went over to another I guess alleged friends home for the football game last week. Whenever the Chiefs played last week, it was either Sunday or it was Monday. I really don't follow the Chiefs, so I can't tell you what day it was. So the next few days roll around and three of the guys have not come home. They haven't been able to be reached. No one knows where they are. So there's multiple different people who were calling this guy who lived at this home that they went to, going over there, knocking on the door, calling, texting, not getting any response whatsoever. So the fiance of one of the guys decides that she is just going to take matters into her own hands, and she manages somehow or another to break into the home. Now, at this point in time, I don't know if homeowner Jordan Willis is there at the time or he's just like hiding in a back room. I don't really know. But essentially, this gal goes in and the car belonging to all three men are in the driveway still, meaning they have to be there. And she proceeds to go out onto the back porch and finds a dead body on the back porch, and then she finds two more dead bodies in the backyard along with the dead body on the back porch. All three of the people that went there, these three guys are dead in the backyard. So here's like the obvious of it all, Like, how do you have three dead bodies in your backyard and not know it? How do you have three people that came over to your house and they didn't leave and you don't know that they're still not that they're gone, their cars are still in your driveway. You have two pats, he has two dogs. Apparently he had to have let them out in the backyard. There was a lot of people saying that there had been a lot of snow and there was a snowstorm. They could have been buried under the snow and no one would have seen it. I have a really hard time believing the guy that lived in the house is a scientist quote unquote, and he is. He's a true scientist. He's a really smart individual. He has a lot of accolades and credentials and stuff. But you can't tell me that you don't know the you have three dead bodies in your backyard, and that your three friends whose cars are still in your drive where you're not like curious as to where the hell they are if their cars are in your driveway. Still. So, the three victims are Ricky Johnson, Clayton mcgeiney, and David Harrington. And the owner, what was a renter of the home, doesn't have any social media presence. He is named Jordan Willis. I can't really find much on him except for scientists kind of stuff that I'm putting into Facebook and Google and stuff like that. There's articles about him. Obviously sounds like a really smart guy. But I've also heard through like via Facebook comments, people that knew him, went to high school with him, that he was odd and weird, and here we are he has three data bodies in his backyard. So of course, the investigators have said there's no sign of fel play, which interesting, but whatever. They are of course going to do autopsies, toxicology, all of the things. People are speculating that it was a fentanyl overdose, but they were obviously maybe given fentanyl by a certain person who's a scientist. I'm just saying allegedly in my opinion, because the scientist guy is thriving. When the cops came, he answered the door in his boxers and it had an empty wineglass in his hand. So he is doing just fine. He didn't overdose, he didn't die, he wasn't on the back porch dead. So there's a lot going on with this one. And I don't know currently, like if he's a suspect, if I'm obviously imagining that they've questioned him, but I'm sure the city of Kansas City is deeply, deeply questioning all of the things. The three guys that died seemed like lovely men, big Kansas City chiefs, fans. They were all really close. They're all like in pictures together dating back years and years and years ago. It is really sad and tragic that this happened, and I think that their families deserve answers as to what happened. And I don't know. When three people die and the one that is still living is inside the house and is ignoring all the family members and friends of these people who are trying to get in contact with their missing loved ones, it just screams suspicious. Allegedly in my opinion, it doesn't smell right. So that is that story. I will keep you guys updated on it, because that is one rabbit hole that I cannot seem to claw my way out of moving on. Richard Allen, the alleged defendant in the Delphi ca and the murders of Abigail and Libby. He has put in emotion to transfer and there's a lot here, but there had been talks about him not being treated very kindly in prison, and this is like basically a motion to transfer him away from where he is to a new place. So let's talk about it. Richard Allen is currently being held in pre triald attention at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility and maximum security State Prison. After visiting with mister Allen at both the Westville Correctional Facility and the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility, it is Council's belief that mister Allen is not being treated similar to other pre trial detainees being held in county jails. Pre trial incarceration at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility will seriously, if not fatally, impact Council's ability to effectively represent mister Allen due to the distance of travel and visitation conditions. Facts. On twenty twenty two, the State of Indiana filed emotion on behalf of the Sheriff of Carroll County, asking if the court transfer Richard Allen to the custody of the Department of Corrections, claiming that due to this being a high profile case, the Carroll County Sheriff should not adequately provide mister Allen with necessary security or other needs at the Carroll County Jail. The judge granted the state's motion and approved Richer Allen's transfer to the Department of Corrections. Then the judge recused himself from the case that same day. Mister Allen has no opportunity to object to this transfer, and no one appeared to consider how this might dig littlely negatively impact mister Allen's defense. On April fifth, twenty twenty three, mister Allen's formal council filed an emergency motion to modify safekeeping order. I have reviewed counsel's motions, and although I lack personal knowledge to vouch for all of the allegations made as mister Allen's present council, I believe it is to be a factual motion, and based upon twenty five years of practicing law, I agree that mister Allen is not being treated similar to other pre trial detainees in county jails, and that his pre trial incarceration at a distant state prison severely impacts council ability to effectively communicate with him and effectively represent him. I'm going to summarize a little bit of it because it's a lot of repetitive stuff, but basically he is claiming that he is being abused. And there is another time when they are alleging that Richard Allen was uncomfortably, unnecessarily shackled and changed in a manner resembling Hannibal Lecter while guards watch through glass panels with the door Ajar and Richard Allen clearly appeared intimidated by the guards and was hesitant to speak freely with his counsel. This was when Council was present. Although none of the prison guards were wearing patches in support of Odinism, one of the guards did have a symbolic face tattoo of odin Speed and multiple hand and finger tattoos emblematic of Odinism and or Norse mythology. I have no idea what any of this means, but it doesn't sound good. The same prison guard had a public Facebook account that also displayed the same tattoos, in addition to a necklace with Thor's hammer inscribed with the letters BRS RCR, an acronym for Bersiker, which is a very specific type of Norse battle acts and the name given to warriors fighting in honor of Odin. Other photos display three interlocking triangles, another symbol associated with Odinism. There's been other instances where the Council was taken to a part of the prison that Richard Allen was in and he was locked in a prison cell located within a kitchen, and the cell appeared to be designed as a place to feed a prisoner. The cell had a solid iron door with a small hinged iron flap approximately eight inches high. It opened just far enough to slide a food tray through. The iron flap was left open, and it was through the small opening that they were allowed to visit with Richard and speak with him. A folding table was set up approximately six feet from the cell door, with three chairs on the far side of the table. We were instructed to sit in the chairs and not to approach Richard or come within six feet of the cell door. The arrangement made it impossible to show Richard any videos or documents, or discuss the case with him without raising their voices and shouting basically a lot of the stuff. Like I said, Richard Allen is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, even though we do not like him and everything that he has done. If he is in fact guilty, we do not like him. However, we have to make sure that he is being treated fairly and that his counsel is able to access him and get with him, because if not, it's setting up a lot of the bad things for the possibility of there being a mistrial or if he is found guilty, setting him up for a hell of an appeal process even already. So despite us not liking him and all the other things, we need to make sure he's being treated fairly. So it's going to be really interesting to see what happens with all of this. The lawyer says, in twenty five years of practicing law, I have never had to conduct any in custody legal visitation in the same manner as which he has with mister Allen. I routinely conduct legal visits with the jails and Alan Adams Hunting, King, Randolph and Wills Counties, including consultations with numerous clients charged with murder. There is never a guard present during the consultation, and there is never audio or video equipment recording the visit. My clients are never shackled, handcuffed, or chained during visits. These are clearly state prison policies, not county jail policies. I am often able to simply sit at a table with my client and have a conversation, but at the very least I am able to sit directly across from my client and speak through a large plexiglass partition in which we can view videos and documents. County jails routinely, dare I say daily have lawyers visiting pre trial detainees, and as such, county jails have rooms specifically designed for attorney visits. Based upon Council's observation and experience, mister Allen is not being treated similar to other pre trial detainees being held in county jails. However, even if this court were to find that mister Allen's pre trial treatment within the state prison system does not in itself justify moving him to a county jail, evidence is absolutely overwhelming that pre trial detainment at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility will seriously, if not fatally, impact Council's ability to effectively represent mister Allen due to the sheer amount of travel and unworkable visitation conditions. Council from mister Allen respectfully request that he be transferred to either the Allen Can Jail or the Adams County Jail. Signed Richard C. Screaming who is the attorney? I'm stressed out by that. That's a lot. That is a lot of claims, and like I said, if they are legit claims and this is really happening, this is grounds for a mistrial, This is grounds for an appeal already, and we're not even to that stage yet. So we are definitely going to keep you updated on that. There is a lot going on there. And I feel like these cases are all just wild and crazy right now, Like there's so much going on right now in true crime I cannot even keep up. I feel like it's a full time job. I'm trying my best to keep up. I feel like every time I record one of these right now in true crimes, something else happens and then I have to add that to my notes to tack it on for the following episode, and I am just very reoverwhelmed with right now in true crime, with all of these high profile cases that are going on that keep having all of these bumps along the way. It's definitely keeping your girl busy. But I'm here for it. I love it. I am here for it. So all of that, we are going to go ahead and lead into today's episode, which is quite the rabbit hole, if I do say so myself. So I hope you guys enjoy today's episode. Okay, guys, we are jumping in to a brand new case today. This one had me in such a rabbit hole. I wish that I could clawn my way out of the rabbit hole, but I cannot. So I am going to drag you all into the rabbit hole with me because this one is a wild ride. So buckle up. Today we are going to be talking about the disappearance of a woman named Cheryl Pearson. She was a doctor. So Cheryl was born August twenty first of nineteen sixty four to her parents, Leon and Hazel Pearson. She was the youngest of three kids, and she was always very much that girl that took her education very very seriously. She was raised in Tennessee and graduated from Jackson Central Mary High School in nineteen eighty two, and then from there she attended the University of Tennessee and in nineteen eighty seven she earned a degree in chemical engineering. Then she decided that she wanted to kind of shift her focus and decided that she wanted to go into medicine and become a doctor. And from there she attended the Mahari Medical College and that was in Nashville, and she earned her medical degree. And from there she moved to the Memphis area in the late nineties and was working as a pediatrician as part of the Raleigh Group practice at a children's hospital in Bartlett, Tennessee. So Cheryl was the girl that everybody loved her. Patience loved her. She was a light for her patients, and she was very genuine, down to earth. She loved her job, she loved taking care of her pediatric patients. And it was kind of cool for her to kind of pay it forward because Cheryl was diagnosed as a Type one diabetic at a very young age. She was insulin dependent and she knew that being a pediatrician, she was going to be able to connect with other children that also maybe were struggling with being diagnosed as diabetics and was going to be able to help them. At this point in time, she had recently gotten her insulin pomp and she was very much that person that was always there for her patients, advocating for them, being there and just showing them that there is life on the other side of being a diabetic. You can achieve all the things you want to achieve, and you can live a very successful and productive life. Because for kids with type one diabetes who have to deal with blood sugar and insulin and being so hyper focused and hyper aware of everything that they put ano their body, I can't even imagine how hard that is, especially as a child, and Cheryl was just the type of person to help these kids navigate this. So she really had a passion for helping her patients and being a good doctor. At the end of the day, Besides her job, she was really dedicated to her family. She was not married, but she had a boyfriend and she was close with her sister and her parents. And she was also a huge, huge, huge Memphis Grizzlies fan, the Tennessee basketball team, and she was a season ticket holder so you would often find her at the home game cheering on her team, and that was kind of where she was most happy. So we're going to fast forward a little bit to January fourth of two thousand and two. This is the day that Cheryl disappears. So Cheryl was thirty seven years old at the time of her disappearance. She had decided to attend one of the Grizzlies games. She went alone by herself, which was not out of the ordinary for her. Although she had a lot of friends, family, and her boyfriend, she enjoyed her own company and was not afraid to go and do things on her own. So this particular evening, she went to the Grizzlies game and during the game, she had spoken with her mom on the phone, and she told her mom that she really wasn't feeling well and that she felt a little lightheaded and weak, which of course could be a result of her diabetes. But she told her mom, there's really nothing to worry about. I'm fine, and the game ended. The Grizzlies lost that night to the Atlanta Hawks, so she went ahead and decided to drive home, and this was about ten thirty pm. She gets home and she meets a couple of her friends, Andrea Fox, and there was another female friend that went ahead and came over to Cheryl's house to hang out for a while. They didn't really notice anything out of the ordinary with Cheryl. They didn't say that she acted like she wasn't feeling well. She never mentioned anything, so she must have been feeling better than she had earlier in the evening. They visited with her until about one am, and then Cheryl said that she needed to wake up early the next day because she was going to be babysitting her sister's kids, and she knew that her sister was going to be dropping the kids off early, so she wanted to try to get some sleep before she needed to be babysitting. So Andrea and her other friend left about one am, and they had no idea that when they left that that was going to be the last time that they saw Cheryl. So we're going to go on to the next day, and then we're going to backtrack a little bit and find out some of the things that police found in their investigation. So it is January fifth of two thousand and two. Cheryl's sister, Laurinda arrives at Cheryl's home to drop off her kids so Cheryl could babysit, only to see that Cheryl was not there and nowhere to be found. Now. Immediately, Laurinda knew that something was wrong because Cheryl would not have left her without a babysitter and not have notified her. It was just so so out of character for her. And she knew, of course that Cheryl was a diabetic, and it was just very out of character for her to up and leave without informing anybody, and also knowing that Loreinda was going to be there that morning to drop off her kids. So she immediately calls her parents and said, something is going on with Cheryl. She's not here. I think she's missing. And her parents lived in Jackson, Tennessee, and they drove for about two hours to get to Bartlett to help figure out what was going on with Cheryl. In the meantime, Lreinda goes ahead and reports her sister missing to the Bartlett Police department and they begin their investigation. So family members are starting to come and they enter into Cheryl's home and they don't see any signs of a break in, but they do see that her cell phone charger, her pager and her insulin pomp, which was literally her lifeline, have been left behind. Now I know a lot of people. One of my very best friends growing up was insulin dependent diabetic Brittal type one diabetic. She got her insulin pump and it literally did not leave her side. It was always with her. And if I had found a situation where she had left it behind, I would have thought that that was really, really suspect. So immediately her family is thinking the worst of the worst. She left her insulin pump behind. Something has to be wrong. So the police department immediately begins their investigation, and they go ahead and obtain Cheryl's phone records, and they discovered a phone call on the morning of January fifth, So this was after one am, after Cheryl's two friends had already left. It was at one fifty eight in the morning, and it was a phone call that came from a payphone at a sit Goo gas station. This call came in to Cheryl. She picked it up up and there are very many discrepancies on whether this phone call lasted for five seconds or if it lasted two minutes. Regardless, somebody called Cheryl from the Sitgo gas station. She picked it up. There was a short conversation and that was it. Now. The Sitco gas station that the phone call came in from was only about a half a mile from where Cheryl lived. Another odd thing with everything being left behind, her phone, her pager, everything left behind. She was on call that weekend for the hospital, so her job was very important to her. If there was an emergency, she would have been called in, and that is something she took very seriously. Again, she wouldn't leave her home and leave that stuff behind, knowing that she had work responsibilities and also other responsibilities in the morning to babysit her nieces and nephews for her sister. So the detectives go ahead and figure out that this payphone is from the Siggo gas station. They go ahead and they dust it for fingerprints. Well, it's a public payphone, lots of people use it. Nothing really comes up. And they also are trying to obtain any security camera footage, and unfortunately, it was back in two thousand and two where cameras either are not working, are really really poor quality, or just are non existent, and there was nothing really useful for them to use to figure out who this person on the other end of the phone was that was calling Cheryl. Another thing that I don't think I mentioned is that Cheryl was gone, but her car was also gone, which shows that Cheryl either left on her own completely on her own to go meet somebody, or somebody came to Cheryl's house and took her against her will and also took her vehicle. So a lot of really interesting aspects to this case that just do not make any sense. So at this point, Cheryl's coworkers, family and friends all come together and they make flyers to pass out with her information on at her picture, and they're kind of doing their own search to try to find Cheryl or try to find her vehicle, which was a dark blue Oudie, And they eventually scraped together enough money to offer a ten thousand dollars reward for information leading to Cheryl's safe return or information as to what happened to her. They were able to kind of scrape money together from people that she worked with, and everybody was donating, like Cheryl was really well loved and everybody wanted her to be found safe. So we're going to fast forward to January seventh of two thousand and two. This was just a few days after Cheryl disappeared at seven o'clock in the morning, her dark blue Audi was discovered at the quill Ridge apartment complex, which is off each of Central Road, and so this is two days after Cheryl is last seen. Her car was kind of spotted, and this apartment complex was about a mile north from where Cheryl had lived. And immediately police grew suspicious because family and police themselves had searched that area right before, pretty much right before they found that car. So they suspected that whoever had Cheryl had dumped the car like right before it was discovered, because the family had been in that area and had searched. They had searched the woods between the apartment complex and where Cheryl lived. There was literally just woods surrounding the area where Cheryl lived and the apartment complex where this car ended up being found. Inside of the trunk of the car, they found the Grizzlies tickets from the game that Cheryl had attended on Friday night. They found her car keys, a medical bag which they think that she probably used as a purse to go to and from the hospital, and they also found some personal items inside of the bag. And they found one hundred and forty dollars, which was in twenty dollars increments, which shows you that she probably was not robbed, This wasn't the intention, and that money was in a First Tennessee bank envelope, looking like maybe she had just recently gone to a bank and gone this money. But right away they knew that something majorly was wrong as far as they suspected foul play from the get go, because they decided, of course to process the car and you know, dust for fingerprints and see if they could find anything, and there was not a fingerprint on that car inside, outside, anywhere, not even Cheryl's, meaning that whoever took Cheryl, whoever had this car in their possession, had to have had it detailed between point A and point B when this car was found, which is just wild. They ruled out a robbery gone wrong because there was still money in the car and personal items, and they begin to interview residents of the apartment complex. Nobody says that they saw or heard anything unusual, and no one really recalls seeing a car dropped off anything out of the ordinary like that, so again they're back to square one. Police are still interviewing everyone, especially the last two people that saw Cheryl alive that are known, which is her two friends that had come over that evening, and they said that Cheryl was fine. She was looking forward to big sitting the next day, and that's why they left around one am. The friend said that Cheryl didn't act like she wasn't feeling well. She had didn't report feeling weak or lightheaded or anything like that, And as far as they knew, she didn't have any additional plans that night. She was just going to go to bed and then wake up the next day to babysit for her sister. So there's not really a whole lot to go off of as far as that goes. She wasn't acting odd, She didn't say anything, she wasn't alluding to anything being weird in her life. She was just acting like her normal all the time self. So from there they kind of started focusing more on a certain suspect, and that guy is a guy named Charles goes by Chuck Hildreth, and he is actually Cheryl's brother in law and the husband to Larinda, who is the sister of Cheryl and the one whose kids Cheryl was going to be babysitting. Now, the reason that they kind of focused in on Chuck was because police had discovered that Laurinda is the beneficiary of Cheryl's one hundred and fifty thousand dollars life insurance policy, and they kind of thought that maybe Chuck did something in order to obtain that money, so they interviewed Chuck multiple different times. I think honestly, they were just kind of grasping its straws and trying to figure out, like, who could have motive, and this could maybe be motive if they're looking at it as like a financial gain. Of course, the life insurance policy that Cheryl had in place was for Chuck and Larenda's kids to benefit off of if something were to happen, So they very much, I feel like, were grasping its draws naming Chuck as a suspect, but they did. They named him outright, you are a number one suspect, and they said that he had a lot of inconsistencies in his story and at the time, he was also out on bond for an unrelated armed robbery, and later he did end up being convicted of that arm robbery, but there was really no way for them to tie him to Cheryl's disappearance. It really didn't line up. He had a solid alibi, and they eventually did clear him as a suspect, but they put him through hell and back because unfortunately he didn't have anything else to go on, and they kind of thought, oh, life insurance policy, money motivated, We're going to look at this guy. And unfortunately he already had a not so stellar criminal past, and unfortunately he was an easy target. But at the end of the day, Chuck had nothing to do with Cheryl's disappearance, and again we're back at square one. Over the years, Cheryl's case gets a little attention here and there. There is a show that is Done Without a Trace that aired in two thousand and six. No new leads came in from the airing of the show, and then in March of two thousand and six, they up the reward for information leading to her whereabouts to forty one thousand dollars. The state of Tennessee put up twenty five thousand, and then the parents of Cheryl chipped in the remainder to increase it to forty one thousand. And they did this because they thought that offering a larger reward might help garner more tips and lead them to figuring out what happened to Cheryl. So in two thousand and nine, Cheryl's family has her declared legally dead, which it really depends on what state you're from if you do this or not, so in ordinance with the Tennessee law, they do have her declared legally dead seven years after her disappearance. And I'm gonna kind of go through a little bit of the law in Tennessee in regards to having somebody declared dead if they are missing, because I think it's really interesting because it is different everywhere. So in Tennessee law, a person absence from such person's place of residence an unheard of for seven years or longer, who is absence is not satisfactory explained, is presumed to be dead, provided, however, such presumption may be rebutted by proof. Aka, we find this evidence that she's still alive. And here it is, so with that they declared Cheryl legally deceased. I can't imagine how hard that must have been for the family to have to do that and declare Cheryl legally dead. And really, truthfully, seven years is a long time, but in the grand scheme of things, it's really not a super long time and having to go through that process and come to terms with the further way you get from somebody being missing, the more days that go by, the less likely that it is that you're going to find them. A really sad, really unfortunate situation. And a year later, in January of twenty ten, Cheryl's father, Leon Pearson passes away, and for him to pass away without having any idea whatever happened to his daughter, it's something I don't feel like a parent should ever have to go through, not knowing first of all where their child is or what happened, or if they're safe or if they're not. It's just really sad and tragic all the way around. In December of twenty ten, there were some remains that were found in Lakeland, which is about ten miles away from where Cheryl lived, and hunters discovered a skull and bones that appear to have been in this particular era for a while. They did a sick investigation, of course, and it is determined that the bones do not match those of a black female, which Cheryl was an African American female, so they officially confirm them as not belonging to Cheryl. On December sixth of twenty ten. So now we're going to jump forward to twenty and thirteen, and there is a tip that is brought in by an inmate that leads them to two women that are in Georgia. So in twenty thirteen, an inmate reaches out to the Bartlett Police Department, and this inmate is referring to a fellow inmate who indicates that he has knowledge of what happened to Cheryl. And this person produces a letter and provides some details tying in Cheryl's disappearance to some women who are in Georgia who are alleged to have information about what happened that night that Cheryl vanished. So this lead, unfortunately produces no new results or information. I am dying to know more. I could not find any more details other than that in regards to that, and I just I need to know more. I just feel like I need to know more. I need to know more. In March of twenty thirteen, a former Bartlett Police Department investigator took on Cheryl's cold case, and this person decided to create a public, public Facebook page to try to figure out what happened to Cheryl and help to resolve her case, and it is doctor Cheryl Pearson missing person on Facebook, and he basically creates this page and is hoping that he can find this information. He at this point in twenty thirteen no longer works for Bartlet PD, but he has taken this on himself and wants to help try to solve the case. So he pledges to pass any tips or information he receives to the currently detective and the team that is investigating Cheryl's disappearance. The Facebook page still does exist, however, there hasn't really been any activity on it since twenty eighteen, and in regards to Cheryl's case, there hasn't been any new information, no new leads, no sightings, no nothing in a long long time. Now we go back to that night she receives this phone call. She obviously left her house in a rush. She didn't take any of herself with her, She didn't take her insulin pomp, she didn't take her cell phone, she didn't take her pager. Something must have either been put to her in like we have an emergency, you need to get here now, don't even think about it, just leave, or somebody took her against her will, which there wasn't a sign of a struggle in the home, So that kind of leads you to maybe think that whoever, if somebody came there, that she knew who they were and she willingly left with them, and then they had nefarious intentions, and god knows what happened. Her boyfriend was cleared of any wrongdoing. Everyone in her family was cleared of any wrongdoing. Any close friends that were around were cleared of any wrongdoing. They literally have nothing to go on. It is literally like she vanished into thin air. Her car was found, it obviously had been cleaned, very very detailed cleaned, and dropped off. It just does not make any sense. And when I tell you it's a rabbit hole, it's a rabbit hole because you're literally trying to figure out how did this gal vanish into thin air? And where could she be. They haven't found any remains, they haven't found any evidence of anything that is even stating that she is deceased, but legally she was declared deceased. It is just a crazy story, and I don't know what to think. I really want to know what you guys think about this one. If you were familiar with this one at all, This one really really gets me. She does not seem the type to just leave her life behind, leave her job behind, leave her family, her friends. It doesn't seem in her character. And the fact that she was a insulin dependent diabetic and that insulin pump literally is her lifeline, it doesn't make sense that she would leave that behind. It simply makes no sense. So again, this is a really important episode to share. As they all are share the photos of Cheryl. I'm going to share her missing person's flyer. I'm going to share all of the different things that I can in regards to Cheryl's case, and I think it's important to talk about it. It's a long time ago. We're talking two thousand and two. That's a long time ago, but we still need to share and keep the word out there and keep Cheryl's memory alive and keep her name out there, because somebody knows something, somebody saw something and didn't realize it, or has been sitting on a secret for a long time, and they need to just tell the truth and be a good person and give her family some closure in this. So thank you guys so much. I appreciate each and every single one of you for listening along and following along on Instagram and Facebook and all of the socials. I really appreciate you, guys. I will see you guys on Friday for a brand new episode. Have a great week ahead. Bye,