Ashley Flowers
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And at the end, I'm going to pop back in to tell you who they've arrested, what we know about the guy, and what investigators are asking you to still help with.
Now, if you remember the case well, check the show notes for a time code, and then you can jump right to the update.
When 19-year-old Shane Henry pulls up to give her older sister Cheryl a ride to work on the morning of August 23rd, 1990, she does what most teenagers do in the pre-cell dark ages.
She lays on the horn and waits.
Shane's got to get to work herself, so she's like a little peeved when she has to go inside.
More peeved when she realizes that Cheryl isn't even there.
If she was going to like catch a ride or not go or not be there, like a heads up would have been nice.
But now Shane is running late, so she kind of just like scoots without giving it much more thought.
At least not until she gets a call at work that morning at around 10 a.m.
And it's a friend and a co-worker of Cheryl's, and she wants to know where Cheryl is because she just hasn't shown.
And that's when Shane's stomach drops, although she's not quite sure why.
Because she knows that Cheryl was out the night before with her new boyfriend, Andy Atkinson.
Like, Shane had actually been out with them, too.
She dipped around 11 to give the lovebirds some, like,
So in her mind, the most likely scenario is that her sister just overslept or something.
But still, Shane can't kick this uneasy feeling, so she actually asks for permission to leave work early.
She's told no, though, which...
I feel like it's pretty messed up, like if you think your sister is missing.
And before long, like the whole family knows what's going on.