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And Barbara actually says later in reporting for KHOU 11 that the officer holding her up is also holding her back from running towards the area across the field where there's just this like sudden flurry of activity.

And Shane can't even process it all.

She turns to ask her dad what's wrong, like what happened?

Why is everyone so upset all of a sudden?

And I don't know if he's been briefed or if he's just like putting two and two together.

But he responds with the last two words that Shane is prepared to hear.

She's gone.

And in the blink of an eye, investigators surround them, like corralling them towards their car, saying like, listen, we're so sorry, but like you have to leave now.

This is a crime scene.

And the entire family is thinking like, how?

How can they leave Cheryl out there?

But they don't have a choice.

So they go and investigators have to get to work.

Jill Tyra reported for Wilmington Morning Star that Cheryl's body had been found by a scent tracking dog about 200 yards from Andy's car, just barely into the wooded area past the field.

When she's found, she's naked, lying face down on the ground, and her hands are actually bound behind her back with rope.

And she has what looks like jagged wounds to her head and her neck, and her throat has been slashed.

And her killer, it seems, made a half-hearted attempt to conceal her body under some pieces of like wood from this like rotting fence.

And then they find her clothes nearby, a single $20 bill as well.

Her pretty turquoise summer dress with like red accents had actually been cut from her body.

And Shane thinks maybe her underwear had been too, she told us, which suggests to investigators that whatever horrors Cheryl had been met with probably involved a sexual assault.