Mary Ann Herron

Yeah. They spent a lot of time together.

Yeah. They spent a lot of time together.

When she didn't show home, I started phoning her friends and my family just to see if maybe she went to one of her friends' house after school or something.

When she didn't show home, I started phoning her friends and my family just to see if maybe she went to one of her friends' house after school or something.

and nobody had seen her or heard from her. So then the family and I, we started going out and looking for her, looking in parks and in the area just to see, you know, if she was someplace else and just hadn't come home yet. We had phoned the police, and they said it was too soon yet to do anything.

and nobody had seen her or heard from her. So then the family and I, we started going out and looking for her, looking in parks and in the area just to see, you know, if she was someplace else and just hadn't come home yet. We had phoned the police, and they said it was too soon yet to do anything.

What we actually got from the Hanover police chief himself was that his daughter runs away a lot, takes off for days, so mine probably did the same thing. So she never showed home and I sat up all night and waited for her and worried and I even had the feeling too all along that she was down there by the park somewhere.

What we actually got from the Hanover police chief himself was that his daughter runs away a lot, takes off for days, so mine probably did the same thing. So she never showed home and I sat up all night and waited for her and worried and I even had the feeling too all along that she was down there by the park somewhere.

I kept trying to get them to search more and the church and I, we even got together and formed our own search and we wanted to search down there and they wouldn't let us. They made us go in the opposite direction.

I kept trying to get them to search more and the church and I, we even got together and formed our own search and we wanted to search down there and they wouldn't let us. They made us go in the opposite direction.

Yes. They didn't want the public to panic.

Yes. They didn't want the public to panic.

I think everybody just wanted to believe she was a runaway. Nobody would actually think of her as something had happened, not in a small town, not to their town. So everybody just told us, no, she's a runaway. She'll come back when she's ready. Even when we were putting up posters, people would take them down. They just didn't want to believe it.

I think everybody just wanted to believe she was a runaway. Nobody would actually think of her as something had happened, not in a small town, not to their town. So everybody just told us, no, she's a runaway. She'll come back when she's ready. Even when we were putting up posters, people would take them down. They just didn't want to believe it.

Yes, we all were at one point. They asked us to take polygraphs and I agreed just to rule out being a suspect so that they would get on with the case and find the person that did it. I did it willingly knowing that it would clear me and would help the case. I would have done anything at that time. And you went through two of them.

Yes, we all were at one point. They asked us to take polygraphs and I agreed just to rule out being a suspect so that they would get on with the case and find the person that did it. I did it willingly knowing that it would clear me and would help the case. I would have done anything at that time. And you went through two of them.

I did know before the night was over she was dead, though. Call it mother's intuition or whatever, I knew she was gone.

I did know before the night was over she was dead, though. Call it mother's intuition or whatever, I knew she was gone.

I found that whenever you tried to tell them something, they twisted it into something else. It was never what you were trying to explain. They always just took bits and pieces and made their own sentences.

I found that whenever you tried to tell them something, they twisted it into something else. It was never what you were trying to explain. They always just took bits and pieces and made their own sentences.