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Elaine Shereika

Case from Gambrills, MD dated May 23, 1988

Victim Details

Elaine Shereika

Female

White / Caucasian

Gambrills

MD

1988-05-23

37

Elaine

Shereika

07/24/2026

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On May 23, 1988, 37-year-old Mary Elaine Shereika, a female, went for an early morning jog near her home in Gambrills, Maryland, a routine she followed before heading to her job as a paralegal. When she failed to return, her fiancé reported her missing. Later that day, a farmer discovered her partially clothed body in a rye field he was plowing. An investigation revealed that she had been sexually assaulted, beaten, stabbed, and ultimately strangled to death.

For years, the brutal murder ...
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