On a spring morning in Scott City, Missouri, 19-year-old Cheryl Anne Scherer, a white female, was working her shift at the Rhodes Pump-Ur-Own gas station, a job she held to pay for her college tuition. The date was April 17, 1979, and the day seemed to be unfolding like any other. Around 11:20 a.m., she made a routine call to her mother, chatting about plans for dinner and sewing that evening. Her mother later recalled that Cheryl was in good spirits. However, in a brief window of time between 1
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