As I said earlier I had a subscription to archives of old newspapers from that era, I happened onto a rather complete account of the clerk’s accounting of Sherrill that night. In the one account she was said to be accompanied with a man in his 30’s with long stringy hair and a mustache. In another account it said they were in a larger vehicle like an Oldsmobile Cutless and yet another in her known Mitsubishi Eclipse. This took place at about 2:15 AM, which would be about the same time that Suzie and Stacy were about to leave Battlefield.
Evidently the clerk was a long time employee and knew the women from numerous encounters. I remain ambivalent.
My personnel opinion is that the account is somewhat unclear although others believe it is very solid. The name of the clerk and the station are stated in the News Leader in the issue if June 19, 1992.
I can if necessary to get the precise quotes in accordance with the rules here. I’m not entirely certain at this point what is acceptable.
On another matter, one source in and in an earlier edition someone, not clearly who, stated that surely a gun must have been used since they wouldn’t have gone voluntarily. That was obviously an opinion and could not be said as proven fact.
There are about 500 pages of material to be found about this case in the archived material. I’m going date by date and it is somewhat unwieldy as opposed to being able to read the actual newspaper or microfilm.