Hi, Crime Junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers, and I'm Britt.

And today's story is about a missing woman, the complicated relationship she had with her husband,

and two daughters who've spent almost 40 years searching for answers.

This is the story of Mary Baderaco.

It's near the end of August 1984 when 21-year-old Sherry Pissarro's phone rings.

It's her step-sister, Donna, calling to say that Donna's dad, who would be Sherry's

stepfather, wants to talk to both of them about their weddings.

And yeah, weddings plural because both Sherry and Donna are engaged at the time.

Sherry says, okay, no problem, but in her head she's thinking, this is super weird because

her step-dad, Dominic Baderaco, had never asked to meet with her before.

Like, never. And what's even weirder is that Dominic got Donna to call instead of just asking Sherry's own mom,

38-year-old Mary, to do it. But she jumps into her car and heads to their place in Sherman, Connecticut,

a small town right outside the New York border.

The house Mary and Dominic live in now isn't the one Sherry grew up in.

That house had been in Danberry, 25 minutes away, but once Sherry and her younger sister Beth and Dominic's

four kids were grown and left the nest, Dominic and Mary bought this place.

According to a piece published by Republican American, Dominic paid for the house in cash,

almost $115,000, and the two spent a year renovating it before they moved in.

Now, the deed to the house was actually in Mary's name and Dominic, quote, encouraged her to call it her dream home.

End quote, which I thought was just worth saying because like she never said it was her dream home.

He just kept telling her it was.

He's just like, this is your dream home.

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