IL IL - Cheryl Murray, 43, Peoria, 1 April 1994

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Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance


Missing Since: April 01, 1994 from Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: January 20, 1951
Age: 43
Height: 5'2"
Weight: 108 lbs.
Hair Color: Sandy Blonde
Eye Color: Blue
Race: White
Gender: Female
Distinguishing Characteristics: Rightt middle finger amputated
at first knuckle.
AKA: Cheryl Louise Smith
Case Number: 94-40319


http://www.nampn.org/cases/murray_cheryl.html

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/8564/

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/murray_cheryl.html

 

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Bumping for Cheryl...it's now been over 26 years.

 

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Missing Person / NamUs #MP8564

View NamUs missing person case MP8564 for Cheryl Louise Murray missing from Peoria, Illinois. Date of last contact: Apr 01, 1994. NCMEC case number: --.

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Cheryl Louise Murray

cookcountysheriffil.gov

Cheryl Murray – Illinois Missing Persons

Cheryl Louise Murray – The Charley Project

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Murray, circa 1994

• Missing Since 04/01/1994
• Missing From Peoria, Illinois
• Classification Endangered Missing
• Sex Female
• Race White
• Date of Birth 01/20/1951 (73)
• Age 43 years old
• Height and Weight 5'1 - 5'2, 100 - 115 pounds
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• Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Blonde hair, blue eyes. Murray may use the last name Smith. Her right middle finger has been amputated at the first knuckle.

Details of Disappearance​

Murray was last seen in Peoria, Illinois on April 1, 1994. She has never been heard from again. Murray is one of several missing women from the Peoria area; others include Stephanie Gibson and Loretta Tinkham. Another woman named Sheryl Murwin vanished from Peoria in 1994; her skull was found in 2001 and identified in 2003.

Arie Ray Davis was convicted of the murder of an Illinois woman in the late 1990s and was sentenced to death. Prostitutes working in the Peoria area reported that Davis enjoyed strangling and beating them in the early 1990s. Investigators said that he suffered from a sexual dysfunction and felt inferior towards women.

Authorities do not know if the cases are related, but it is possible that the women came into contact with Davis. He died after suffering a heart attack on death row in October 2002.

Davis consistently maintained his innocence in the disappearances. Several unidentified female bodies have been located in the Peoria area in recent years, but the victims are not believed to be related to the missing women's cases.

1172DFIL - Cheryl Louise Murray

Distinguishing Marks/Features: Previous childbirth. Medical: Right middle finger is amputated at the first knuckle

<<Murray was last seen leaving a party in the Peoria, Illinois area and reported missing on April 1, 1994.>>

 

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