Girl Gets Off Bus Metres From Home And VANISHES

About this episode

The episode discusses the mysterious disappearance of eight-year-old Cherrie Mahan in 1985.

On a February afternoon in 1985, eight‑year‑old Cherrie Mahan got off her school bus near her rural Pennsylvania home and walked toward her driveway, then vanished before she reached the front door. Her backpack and footprints were there, witnesses reported a suspicious van, but Cherrie was simply gone, leaving behind one of America’s most haunting missing‑child cases and the very first face to appear on the now‑famous “Have You Seen Me?” mailer posters.

People in this episode

Host: Georgia Marie

Topics covered

• missing child
• true crime
• unsolved cases
• 1980s
• disappearance
• mystery

Keywords

• Cherrie Mahan
• missing child
• disappearance
• Pennsylvania
• true crime
• 1985
• Have You Seen Me?

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Have You Seen Me?

Places: Pennsylvania

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