Cheryl's Mom posted this on facebook today:
CHERYL, CHERYL, CHERYL. A security guard called our home.
He told me he had found Cheryl’s checkbook and purse in a vacant white car off of Enclave. It seemed like just minutes before Cheryl’s friends, 2 car loads of friends I think, were at our home and they took Shane and me to Enclave where Andy’s car was parked. I could see the blood area on Andy’s back rest of the front
seat, the passengers side only showed Cheryl’s purse and shoes. The visor on Cheryl’s side of the car was pulled off, as if she was trying to use it to keep from being pulled outside the car. There were golf balls and a club outside the car. After making sure no one was going to touch or move anything, I started yelling Cheryl’s name. CHERYL, CHERYL, CHERYL. and walking into an open area between Andy’s car and a fence. This area was in an upscale office park. It was the Sysco Building. I kept calling Cheryl’s name but stopped walking toward the area where HPD found Cheryl. It’s like something, I believe God, was stopping me from taking another step toward her.
Houston Police Dept. and Harris Country Sheriffs Dept. and a K 9 unit were there. An HPD officer walked me back to the street where everyone was congregating. I sat on a curb with Shaney at my side. Shaney loved Cheryl and looked up to her. They were so close. Within an hour after the K-9 unit came, they had found Cheryl. I watched as 2 dogs ran back and forth searching for her.
An ambulance came and we thought they were taking her to a hospital. I had been trying to get to Cheryl but a police officer said I could stay with the others or sit in the back of his car. A police officer walked up to me and said “We’ve found a little blonde hair girl.” My reply was”NO,NO!! You’ve found a tall red haired girl. He kept telling me they found a little blonde hair girl. He asked what Cheryl had been wearing. I knew the exact details of her dress. It was turquoise sleeveless with tiny little red and white roses in it. She had borrowed my red shoes to go with them. She had asked to borrow my white jacket but I said no because you might get it dirty. What a disgusting horrible mother I am. HPD asked us to go down to their offices to talk with them. I declined telling them I had other children at home I needed to make sure were safe. Dan and I went home. I remember telling Chris, Merideth and Jason that Cheryl had been hurt very badly and wouldn’t be coming back home. Cristl was at college and her cousin drove her home rather us calling her. Andy was found the following day. My heart goes out to Andy’s Mother, Dad and loved ones . Our lives were forever changed, our hearts broken and I’m still trying to process how Or why this could have happened. OUR LIVES HAVE BEEN SO MUCH RICHER AND FUN AND LOVING BECAUSE CHERYL WAS OURS!! OUR DAUGHTER, SISTER, GRANDDAUGHTER, NIECE, COUSIN, FRIEND.
CHERYL, YOU ARE CHERISHED.
Mocity. Thanks to your stepmom and you for posting this.
This answers a lot of questions that I had.
For example. I asked you if Cheryl went barefoot a lot. I was trying to figure out if she got out of the car barefoot while Andy was driving golf balls, and were confronted outside of the car.
If I remember right, her bare feet were clean when she was found.
I believe that she was in the car, and were ambushed while in the car, after reading about the blood and the ripped off sun visor. I know that you stated that she did go barefoot often, and after reading that her mother lent her the shoes to wear, I was thinking maybe they were bothering her feet some, so she took them off in the car.
I also believe she was carried into the woods and that's why her feet were clean.
We now know that the dogs started tracking from the car.
I had asked where they started tracking from because if one man was responsible for this , he would have had to take them both in the woods together, possibly at gun point, and the dog(s) would have tracked by Andy first because he would have been tied up first imo . He wasn't found til the next day. If Cheryl ripped off the sun visor, her hands/body were not bound while she taken from the car, so imo he didn't tie Cheryl up, take Andy in the woods first, tie him up, and then walk back for Cheryl.
It's not important, but, I believe those dogs were tracking ground disturbance, (from the abductor) and not Cheryl's scent. If she was carried, she would have left some "raft" to track, but no blood. (there was no blood on her side of the car)
I'm convinced that there were two people involved. One took Andy one way and one took Cheryl the other way. That's why the dogs never found Andy first. IMO once those dogs were tracking one scent, LE never bothered to see if the dogs would pick up/track a second scent. I may have misunderstood, but I believe her Mom stated both dogs were running back and forth in the same area. The reason is because they were tracking the same scent, and the reason that Andy wasn't found til the next day.
