Bundled in a gray coat over her blue leg warmers and denim skirt, the 8-year-old got off the school bus in Cabot, Pa., on Feb. 22, 1985.
Cherrie Ann Mahan was about 100 yards from home. But she never made it there.
To this day, investigators do not know what happened to her.
Her missing persons poster – the first featured on the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s mailers – has stayed up for decades, updated with an age-progressed photograph of what she would look like as a woman in her 40s.
Pennsylvania State Police have continued to process tips in the intervening years, running into many dead ends in a case that long ago ran cold.
And, yet, as recently as last month a woman claimed to be the long-lost Cherrie. Cherrie’s mom said she doesn’t believe the woman, and police have said the woman’s fingerprints aren’t a match.
And, so, the investigation moves forward.
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