vehicle, and so we found a van, but we didn t find our friend. and that was really difficult. a forensic examination of the van revealed no evidence of foul play and there were no foreign fingerprints. even more troubling, sherry s personal bank account hadn t been touched since her disappearance. she just got a bonus at work, and she had just put that into the bank, i think, that week. so the theory from all the co-workers was why would she be putting all this money away and not leave with it, not touch it? police conducted extensive interviews with sherry s friend, kevin johnson. he insisted he had nothing to do with her disappearance. and he was later able to provide some information, what he was doing on the day she was reported missing. sherry s co-workers told
sherry durall s disappearance. she hadn t contacted her children, her husband or kevin johnson, the man with whom she had the affair. i knew that she wouldn t leave without telling her mom or calling me. we re the two closest people to her. she was too responsible of a mother and a person to do that. then investigators got their first solid lead. they found sherry s van in a hotel parking lot near the seattle airport. that could have been a thought that she parked there or she met somebody who came into town or she hopped on a plane and took off. but there was no record she stayed in the hotel or took a flight out of town. it was very emotional, finding that van and not her. she wasn t anywhere near the
slightly tipsy and told her that she was going to bed and that her husband, robert durall, had made her a drink. sherry s sister-in-law told police that she was very suspicious because bob seldom served his wife. usually, it was the other way around. they said that it was extraordinarily atypical for mr. durall to ever make his wife a drink of any kind or to serve her any kind of food or drink. and sherry s best friend had one final insight. it was a dream she had about sherry the night before she disappeared. i woke my husband up like at 12:30, 1:00 in the morning, and i said, oh, i had the worst dream about blood everywhere and couldn t get back to sleep. and i feel like that was a
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the autopsy revealed sherry died of blunt force trauma, just as the forensic evidence suggested. prosecutors believed bob was as unhappy in the marriage as sherry was, but concluded a divorce would be too expensive. he did not want to incur the costs of child support or of a divorce and division of the property. mrs. durall s parents were fairly wealthy. mr. durall didn t want to lose his inheritance. on the night of the crime, prosecutors think bob drugged sherry to make her drowsy, although toxicology tests at the autopsy were inconclusive. the evidence proves bob hit sherry on the head repeatedly with a blunt object, creating