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Do you know who murdered Cheryl Thompson?
Cheryl Thompson, a 19-year-old female University of Cincinnati student, was reported missing on March 25, 1978, after she failed to return home from a night out at a bar in Oakley. Her body was discovered two weeks later on April 8, 1978, along the banks of the Little Miami River in Loveland, Ohio. The Hamilton County coroner determined that Cheryl Thompson had been raped and died from strangulation and blunt force trauma to the head.

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