CO CO - Sherry Boyd, 44, Wheelchair bound due to previous assault, Colorado Springs, 16 Oct 1987

[BrownBear]

Sherry Boyd​

Case Details​

Case Type: Homicide
Height: Unknown
Case Status: OPEN
Weight: Unknown
Aliases:
Identifying Marks:
Incident Date: 10/16/1987
Occupation:
Agency: Colorado Springs Police Department
City: Colorado Springs
Date of Birth: 10/04/1943
County: El Paso
Date of Death: 10/16/1987
Agency Case #: 87-30129
Age: 44
Judicial District: 4th Judicial District
Gender: Female
Year Solved:
Race: African American
NamUs Case #: Unknown
Eyes: Brown
NCMEC Case #: Unknown
Hair: Brown

About this Case:​

On October 16, 1987, the CSPD received a report that a body was floating in Prospect Lake. CSPD officers retrieved 44 year old Sherry Boyd. She had been left crippled from a previous assault and at the time of her death in 1987, she was wheel-chair bound. An autopsy performed indicated that the cause of death of Ms. Boyd was asphyxiation and determined the manner of death as homicide. The investigation into Ms. Boyd's death remains open. Anyone with information regarding this case, is asked to please contact the Colorado Springs Police Department.

Colorado Cold Case Files - Case Detail: Sherry Boyd

 

[MadMcGoo]

Such a sad story. It took me a bit to find her, but this document helped. She appears in the 1950 census as Cherie I Houston with her maternal grandmother. It’s curious to me that she is on the same headstone as her cousin and great-aunt (“Patience” and Pearl are sisters). Unfortunately, none of that will help solve her murder, but it’s interesting to learn a bit about Sherry.

https://more.ppld.org/SpecialCollections/Index/ArticleOrders/Homicides/19871016.pdf

Sherry Irene Boyd (1943-1987) - Find a Grave...

Wednesday, October 21, 1987 – Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph - Page B9, Column 3 SHERRY IRENE BOYD, 44, died Friday. She had been employed as a word processor.Visitation will be from noon to 8 p.m. today at Evergreen Funeral Home, 1830 East Fountain Boulevard.The funeral will be at 10 a.m...

www.findagrave.com

 

[DS2021]

Do we know who committed the inital assault?

 

[HENRYWILLIS118]

Such a sad story. It took me a bit to find her, but this document helped. She appears in the 1950 census as Cherie I Houston with her maternal grandmother. It’s curious to me that she is on the same headstone as her cousin and great-aunt (“Patience” and Pearl are sisters). Unfortunately, none of that will help solve her murder, but it’s interesting to learn a bit about Sherry.

https://more.ppld.org/SpecialCollections/Index/ArticleOrders/Homicides/19871016.pdf

Sherry Irene Boyd (1943-1987) - Find a Grave...

Wednesday, October 21, 1987 – Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph - Page B9, Column 3 SHERRY IRENE BOYD, 44, died Friday. She had been employed as a word processor.Visitation will be from noon to 8 p.m. today at Evergreen Funeral Home, 1830 East Fountain Boulevard.The funeral will be at 10 a.m...

www.findagrave.com

The Head Stone thing was a family decision . We all didn’t agree with that decision but it was made and done before we realized it . We figured it’s family no harm no foul and the end .

 

[HENRYWILLIS118]

Do we know who committed the inital assault?

No we don’t . The initial assault that put her in the wheel chair happened in Los Angeles a little over a decade before her murder if I recall correctly.

 

[HENRYWILLIS118]

Such a sad story. It took me a bit to find her, but this document helped. She appears in the 1950 census as Cherie I Houston with her maternal grandmother. It’s curious to me that she is on the same headstone as her cousin and great-aunt (“Patience” and Pearl are sisters). Unfortunately, none of that will help solve her murder, but it’s interesting to learn a bit about Sherry.

https://more.ppld.org/SpecialCollections/Index/ArticleOrders/Homicides/19871016.pdf

Sherry Irene Boyd (1943-1987) - Find a Grave...

Wednesday, October 21, 1987 – Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph - Page B9, Column 3 SHERRY IRENE BOYD, 44, died Friday. She had been employed as a word processor.Visitation will be from noon to 8 p.m. today at Evergreen Funeral Home, 1830 East Fountain Boulevard.The funeral will be at 10 a.m...

www.findagrave.com

Incredibly sad story with many puzzling factors. I am her oldest son and have been trying to figure out more than what we knew back in 87 and so far nothing . I suspected way back that there was a serial killer or killers hunting and dumping where she was found . But I never had the time to put that theory to work . Unfortunately