I found the following information on the Charley Project Website.
Sherrill clothing/jewelry description: Floral print dress
Suzanne clothing/jewelry description: A white t-shirt, jeans and pink shoes
Stacy clothing/jewelry description: Yellow shirt, flowered bikini pants, a fourteen-inch gold herringbone chain necklace, a flat gold initial ring, and a ring with a small diamond.
If these clothing descriptions are factual, to my mind, this indicates that this was an ongoing all-night event. I agree with Talullah, Sherrill surely would have changed into grubbies to stain, varnish, paint or whatever she was doing to the piece of furniture. I think the primary event (the only planned event) concerned Sherrill. If she was in the middle of changing out of those grubbies or perhaps already had nightclothes on and someone “known” to her knocked on the door, I can see her throwing the dress back on. I believe whatever happened to Sherrill happened relatively early in the evening and she was already gone when the girls got to the house.
The girls weren’t expected at the house and I think they would have tried to be as quiet as they could when they got to the house. This is pure speculation on my part, but I can picture Suzie telling Stacy to “go ahead and go to my room and put in a movie – I’ll be right back”. We have no idea where the dog was when the girls got home, but if Cinnamon was yapping and carrying on, Suzie would have tried to get it to a) shut up and b) probably let it outside immediately. Once the dog was outside, she would have gone to her Mom’s room. This could lead to the secondary unplanned event of that night. If Suzie surprised someone in her Mom’s room she would have reacted immediately, if Stacy was in Suzie’s room, with the TV on, she might not have heard anything at first and continued to get undressed. So, if the clothing statements are factual , that would explain Suzie being fully dressed and Stacy half undressed.
This doesn’t really get us any further on what happened, but I do believe a scenario along the lines of what I posted above is very plausible. It hits on several “key” items that have been posted during the years such as:
- The TV being on
- Reports of a dog barking in the early morning hours
- Someone being out and about during the night and early hours of the next morning
- How entry was made (Sherrill willingly opened the door and once she was gone the perp could come and go as he pleased).
- How many perps were involved (Just one at the house, he lured Sherrill away first, was surprised by the girls later and was able to maintain control of two teenagers)
I know I am not expressing myself well, but I think this two separate events scenario makes a lot of sense. Sherrill willing let someone and willing left with them, wearing the dress she wore to graduation. Whatever happened to Sherrill happened then. This would also fit with the trusted one not knowing what was going to happen – he was actually a delivery man – I need to talk to Sherrill, get her here.
Why would he go back to the house? Perhaps to find something (weren’t there rumors of Sherrill’s closet being a mess), perhaps to return Sherrill’s purse, keys, etc. to make it more difficult to find out what happened to her, perhaps to make sure he didn’t leave anything behind to identify who he was. Regardless, I think the girls surprised him, and they immediately became a problem.
Does any of this make sense?
