Cherrie Mahan

Voices for Justice

Sarah Turney

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.8 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On Friday, February 22, 1985, in Winfield Township, Pennsylvania, 8-year-old Cherrie Mahan looked forward to attending her friend Jennifer’s 10th birthday party after school. The final bell rang for her third-grade class, and Cherrie headed to her school bus to get home and get ready for the party. At about 4:10 pm, Cherrie and three of her classmates get off the bus at their regular stop on Cornplanter Road, just around the corner from Cherrie’s home. All her friends make it home, but not Cherrie. Cherrie’s disappearance sparked the creation of the ‘Have you seen me?’ program from The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. But despite this groundbreaking program that has brought thousands of children home, Cherrie remains missing. Investigators are left with a lot of sightings of Cherrie over the years and one very distinct van that they are still trying to track down nearly 40 years later. Cherrie was last wearing Cabbage Patch Kids earmuffs, a gray coat, a white leotard, a blue denim skirt, blue leg warmers, and beige boots. Her ears are pierced, and she has a dog bite scar on her left arm. At the time of her disappearance, she was 4’2” tall and weighed about 68 pounds, with brown hair and hazel eyes. As of the recording of this episode, she would be in her late 40s. If you have any information on the circumstances surrounding Cherrie’s disappearance, please call the Pennsylvania State Police Missing Persons Unit at 717-783-5524 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-4PA-TIPS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Voices for Justice is a podcast that uses adult language and discusses sensitive and
0:06.3	potentially triggering topics including violence, abuse, and murder.
0:11.7	This podcast may not be appropriate for younger audiences. All parties are innocent until
0:16.5	proven guilty in a court of law. Some names have been changed or omitted per their request or for safety
0:21.8	purposes.
0:23.2	Listener discretion is advised.
0:26.9	My name is Sarah Turnie and this is Voices for Justice.
0:30.8	Today I'm discussing the case of Cherry Mahan.
0:37.0	First, have you seen me child still lost?
0:41.0	That's the 2005 Lancaster New era newspaper article about 8 year old
0:45.7	Cherry Mahan that really got to me. If you don't know what they mean by the
0:50.6	phrase Have You See Me Child, they're referring to the program from the
0:54.6	National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in partnership with media company
0:59.1	Vericast and the US Postal Service that features the missing in tiny snippets and newspapers, or more
1:06.1	often adverts now. You probably get them in your mailbox without even noticing them.
1:11.7	They're just tiny one inch horizontal features,
1:15.0	usually on the back page of Red Plum ad booklets.
1:18.3	It typically features a picture of the missing person.
1:21.0	Key details like their name, height, weight, where they're missing from, and who to contact with information.
1:26.5	Oftentimes, that's alongside in each progressed photo to estimate what they might look like today.
1:31.5	It's the only program that helps share information about
1:34.8	my missing sister, Alyssa, in the first few years that she went missing. So when I saw this article,
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