I may be off base with this, but where was Christopher Below in 1993???
Sharon looks like the other possible victims of his - long curly dark hair and attractive.
We know he was in South Carolina in the late 80s and early 90s and is suspected in the disappearance of Krinstina Porco.
He was convicted in the death of Kathern Fetzer who disappeared in 1991 from Ohio and is serving time in that state now.
Heather Teague went missing in 1995 from Kentucky and Below has been suspected of being involved.
Shaylene Farrell went missing from Ohio in 1994 and he is suspected in this case as well.
Mary Kushto went missing from Florida and looks similiar to the others and (for some reason) he is suspected in this case as well.
None of these women have ever been found and all look freakishly alike. I am at work now (I was poking around here while I ate my lunch when this hit me). I am going to do some more digging...Ohio is not that far from Lexington so it would not be unheard of for him to be in that area.
Barkley,
Thank you for bringing up the point that all these women who vanished in a similar time frame do look freakishly alike! Some suspected Sharon's boyfriend, but nothing has linked him, and it is still possible she was taken by someone else. I really do think there is something there with all these women looking freakishly alike vanishing within the same region and time frame.
I have also wondered if Lydia Perkins and Sharon's cases are related. Both vanished from the same area, off the streets.
I found an article that says Christopher Below's marriage was on the rocks in '92(he lived in Lodi, Ohio), and he then moved to Henderson, KY in August 1994, and then moved to Mount Vernon, GA in 1995. From 1996-200 he worked as a truck driver traveling between to North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama and Louisiana. I was frustrated I could not find an article depicting his whereabouts in 1993, but I assume he was out and free, still in that same southeastern area.
I think there is more to his guy then just being the killer of Kathern Fetzer due to a steamy affair. I think he had more victims, and that he had the opportunity to take girls and not be suspected through his transient occupation as a truck driver.
Here's a list of missing women that could be
possible victims of Christopher Below (I'm not saying they all are or are all connected with one another):
1. Kristina Porco
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/p/porco_kristina.html
*November 1986-Hilton Head Island, SC
2. Kathern Fetzer
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/f/fetzer_kathern.html
*November 1991-Medina, OH
3. Sharon Rose Sons
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/s/sons_sharon.html
*October 1993-Lexington, KY
4. Jody Brant
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/b/brant_jody.html
*May 1994-Lawrenceville, GA (But she went missing in the KY/OH area possibly on her road trip).
5. Shaylene Farrell
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/f/farrell_shaylene.html
August 1994-Piqua, OH
6. Heather Teague
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/t/teague_heather.html
*August 1995-Spottsville, KY
7. Regina Cox
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/cox_regina.html
*August 1997-Somerset, KY
8. Erica Fraysure
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/f/fraysure_erica.html
*October 1997-Brooksville, KY
9. Lydia Perkins
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/p/perkins_lydia.html
October 1997-Lexington, KY
10. Alana "Laney Gwinner
*December 1997-Fairfield, OH
**Found murdered in KY in the OH River
11. Mary Kushto
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/k/kushto_mary.html
-May 1998-St. Cloud, FL
Despite the last three being blonde, all the girls still look very similar and how their disappearances fit together on the scale of a timeline is chilling. I'm not saying all of these are connected, but at least some are with each other in some way. If anything, I wonder if Lydia and Sharon's disappearances are connected.