Travis Abney

It could be a Midwest thing.

I don't know.

I've never personally done it.

My wife used to do it.

But there's this guy out randomly hunting for mushrooms in late April on a Saturday evening and stumbles across, you know, a somewhat intact skeleton that has, like, a black sweatshirt wrapped around it.

Yeah, so it's like right off the road.

It's like a little wood patch and I wouldn't say it's the most secluded area in the world I mean, it's it's rural but you know, you're kind of it's a little bit of a windy road and stuff You got houses here scattered but this person, you know sees this calls the police and then we end up getting notified that a

with the skeletal remains is a black NHTSA hooded sweatshirt well NHTSA is who yeah Cheryl worked for so obviously we knew that we had to have dental records confirmation or Cheryl had a surgery so she had a something like a spinal surgery so she had like a disc that was specific it had like a serial number and everything on it was a very specific thing and

Among the remains, we were able to find this particular thing.

I believe it was like in one of her vertebrae.

And we knew that was her.

We knew because of the sweatshirt that it was her.

And then obviously that and, you know, everything came back.

This is Cheryl.

So we're super excited.

Now we've got we've actually now have a body.

So we take it back to the prosecutor's office and.

You know, it's frustrating for me because it's like I was like, as soon as we get this body, we're going to, you know, we should have this case approved like we want.

And we didn't.

It was just like more and more.