Episode 266: The Disappearance of Sherry Lynn Marler

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

12 year old Sherry Lynn Marler disappeared from Greenville, Alabama while out running errands with her step-father on June 6, 1984. There have been sightings of Sherry and theories about what happened to her, but she has never been seen or heard from in the last 39 years.

If you have any information about Sherry or her disappearance, you can contact the Greenville Police Department Missing Persons Unit at 334-382-3107. The NamUS case number is 2350 and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Case number is 601811.

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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 crime podcast. Oh, Welcome back everybody. Happy holiday season.
0:27.0	Happy holiday season.
0:31.0	It's the holiday season. It's the holiday season.
0:35.0	Anyway, I'm out of a drinking out of a, drinking coffee out of a Christmas mug, so I am in the holiday mood. So cute. I love it. But today we are going to be covering a case that I've had on my mind for a really long time and I feel like a lot of people in the
0:56.4	true crime community have at least heard of this girl's name it's an unsolved appearance case
1:03.0	but if I'm being It's an unsolved appearance case.
1:07.0	But if I'm being honest, I didn't really know all the details of the case until I actually started researching it for this episode.
1:11.0	And it's just so frustrating because it is completely unsolved there seems to be no
1:19.6	real information but there is a really big I don't want to say conspiracy theory because I feel like that has the
1:26.5	connotation of being like crazy yeah like out there unfathom, like non-logical.
1:35.0	Right, and it's, I mean it is pretty far out there and there's not really a ton of evidence,
1:41.0	at least authorities have not given it any real like this is definitely a possibility but
1:47.2	Which doesn't mean anything? Yeah, yeah and it does like I go back and forth between it being like, okay, this really could be a possibility to there's no way like this is just way out there
1:59.1	So I'll talk about that, but I definitely think it like has merit and needs to be looked into more and I do feel like this is one of those cases that can be solved because there's somebody out there that knows something. They just haven't come forward.
2:13.1	Are not saying anything, yeah.
2:15.0	Yeah.
2:16.3	So this is the story of the disappearance of 12-year-old Sherry Lynn Marler. Sherry Lynn Marler was born on August 18th, 1971 to Betty and Ralph Marler.
2:28.0	And Betty and Ralph actually ended up divorcing when Sherry was young.
2:32.0	When Sherry was eight years old, her mother Betty married a man
2:36.8	named Ray Stringfellow. And so Ray was her stepfather and she became really close with him as did her and as did I cannot talk. She
2:49.6	became really close with him and then her siblings as well I believe were like relatively close
2:55.0	with him like they all had a good relationship. Okay so not like a you know like
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