Terrie Ehrhart

Terrie Bea Ehrhart, property 23, vanished from Champaign, Illinois connected May 10, 1981.

Terrie was past heard from erstwhile she called her parent from a motel successful Champaign. She told her parent that she would beryllium location the pursuing time to bring a Mother’s Day acquisition and a formal for her daughter. Terrie was ne'er seen oregon heard from again.

She was not reported missing until November 1981, and constabulary yet concluded that she was the unfortunate of a homicide. They would not elaborate connected immoderate imaginable suspects oregon motives, but they did petition the tribunal to let the wiretapping of an unspecified home.

Terrie’s maiden sanction is Thomas. She was calved successful Illinois, and had been successful Wichita, Texas for a clip successful 1978, wherever she joined James V. “Jay” Ehrhart. They divorced successful Yuba County, California successful October 1980. James joined idiosyncratic other a period later. As acold arsenic I tin tell, helium remained successful California for respective years and whitethorn inactive unrecorded determination today, meaning helium was astir apt obscurity adjacent Champaign, Illinois successful 1981.

The motel wherever Terrie was past seen was astir an hr distant from her mother’s location successful Decatur, Illinois. The information that Terrie stated she would “be home” leads maine to deliberation that she lived successful Decatur with her mother. My contiguous thought is that whoever she was staying with astatine the motel holds the cardinal to her disappearance. I wasn’t capable to find whether she had a conveyance with her and intended to thrust herself backmost to Decatur, oregon if she was to beryllium brought by whomever she was with. If she did person a vehicle, there’s been nary reports connected whether it was found.

Terrie’s daughter, who was calved anterior to her matrimony to James, and Terrie’s siblings are inactive living; her parents are deceased.

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