The Sleepover

Dateline NBC

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🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Navy petty officer and devoted mother Sherri Malarik is found shot to death in her minivan after she disappeared. The case remains cold until new revelations and old memories resurface, dividing the Florida family. Andrea Canning reports.

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0:00.0	Tonight on Dateline. I have spent 20 years trying to forget. I had to be completely
0:06.0	silent. How do you live with that kind of a guilt and not just completely
0:11.1	crumble? We get a phone call. He said and not just completely crumble.
0:12.5	We get a phone call.
0:14.6	He says, have you seen Cherry?
0:16.8	No, what do you mean?
0:17.6	Have you seen Cherry?
0:18.6	We're like, hey, where's mom?
0:19.6	He's just, she went to the store.
0:21.0	Cousins are having their big sleep over?
0:22.4	Yes, she's got the kids.
0:23.7	She would never leave.
0:26.1	They tell me they had a body in a van in a parking lot.
0:29.4	She was bed.
0:30.4	She was in my bag. You start trying to put the pieces together.
0:35.0	His alibi and children that are sitting in the kitchen.
0:37.0	I've thought that I had a couple memories before,
0:40.0	but I don't know if they're real or not.
0:42.0	Cherry's youngest was three and she said,
0:45.0	Mommy, why doesn't daddy love you anymore?
0:47.0	Dad loves Jennifer.
0:48.0	Jennifer was the biggest puzzle piece we had.
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