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Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Episode 180: The Murder of Sherry Eyerly

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

18 year old Sherry Eyerly disappeared while delivering Domino’s pizza on July 4, 1982. Despite searches and an initial suspect that seemed promising, her case remained cold for 25 years…

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0:00.0

What's up you guys? I'm Haley. And I'm Andrea. And this is Inhuman, a true friend podcast.

0:06.0

Okay, welcome back everybody. If you haven't listened to Monday's episode, you need to go listen to it.

0:31.0

Andrea did a solo episode because I wasn't feeling well. And when I listened to it on Monday morning, I had no clue what the case was. And I was like so invested and shook and like replying to her in my head. So if you haven't listened that episode, go listen to it because it's really good.

0:47.0

I was really surprised because so many people responded about that case and like how crazy it is. We even got an email about it from Lisa. So shout out to Lisa for that. But yeah, I might have to dig and find some more cases similar to that because there was a good.

1:04.0

A positive feedback of solace. No, it was crazy. And it's kind of like like you were saying, it's like different. Though what we normally do, but it was kind of nice. A little bit lighter. Good story.

1:14.0

Good story.

1:15.0

Yeah. Yeah. And it's remarkable. So I just had to share it.

1:19.0

Yeah. Well, today we are going to be talking about not so nice of a case, but it is solved. So we're going to be talking about the disappearance and murder of Sherry Airely.

1:32.0

And this was suggested by Beth. So thank you, Beth for the suggestion. Yes, thank you.

1:37.0

Around 10.30 p.m. on Sunday, July 4th, 1982, a man lighting fireworks near Farragate, South Street in Salem, Oregon noticed a car that looked to be abandoned.

1:48.0

So he moved closer and he noticed that it was a dominoes pizza delivery car. Okay. The engine in the car was running. The lights were on and the driver's side door was wide open.

1:58.0

And then there was pizza boxes on the road next to the car. Oh my god. Some sources say that the boxes were inside the car.

2:05.0

But more sources say that they were like outside the car on the road. So that's what I'm going with. Okay.

2:12.0

So this car was just it looked like somebody had gotten out and just left it. But the driver was nowhere to be seen.

2:19.0

So this man called the police and they were able to pretty quickly put together that this car was driven by a dominoes employee named Sherry Airely.

2:29.0

So Sherry Melissa Airely was born on December 6th, 1983 in Salem, Oregon. And she lived in Salem with her parents Linda and Steve until she graduated high school in June, 1982.

2:42.0

And after graduating, she decided to move into an apartment with her cousin because she, you know, wanted to be independent now that she was done with high school.

2:50.0

And so she began working at dominoes to make a living while deciding, you know, what she wanted to do with her life.

2:57.0

Okay. That makes sense. I mean, I feel like a lot of us do that when we're trying to figure out the next step.

3:02.0

Exactly. So the evening of July 4th was a busy night for dominoes. As you can imagine, if you're in the US, July 4th is always crazy for pizza delivery because people just want easy food coming to their home.

3:17.0

So it was a really busy night and Sherry was actually not supposed to work that night, but she was called in because they needed more help.

3:26.0

No, I hate that. I know. So at first it was a normal night delivering pizzas, you know, busy night, but totally normal work night.

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