Missing
Sherry Michaud Petersen
Petersen, approximately 1992; Frank Crow
Date and time person was reported missing : 12/24/1992
Missing location (approx) :
Ocala, Florida
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 02/22/1950 (71)
Age at the time of disappearance: 42 years old
Height / Weight : 5'6 - 5'7, 135 pounds
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian female. Brown hair, hazel eyes. Petersen has a large brown birthmark on the front of her right shoulder. She was missing four teeth at the time of her 1992 disappearance and wore a dental plate. Some Age at the time of disappearance: ncies spell her last name "Peterson" or call her Sherry Yon Petersen.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Petersen was scheduled to visit her parents' residence in Lakeland, Florida during the 1992 holidays. She lived with her children in Ocala, Florida at the time. She sent her children to their grandparents' house alone on December 24, 1992 and told her mother she would call her early on Christmas morning. She has never been heard from again.
In 2018, authorities announced they were closing Petersen's case, although they have not found her body or filed charges against anyone, because they had determined Frank Crow was responsible for her death.
A photo of Crow is posted with this case summary. He is currently serving a thirty-year prison sentence for the unrelated murder of his roommate. He offered to confess to Petersen's murder, in exchange for immunity from prosecution. Immunity was granted, because he's in poor health and will be 84 years old at the time of his earliest parole date. Petersen's family agreed to this.
According to Crow, on Christmas Eve 1992, he met Petersen at a convenience store and they had drinks together at the White Forest Tavern. Afterwards they walked down to Lake Catherine together. He stated he killed her there, dismembered her and threw the body parts into several lakes in the Ocala National Forest area.
Crow said he'd murdered Petersen because she was a "snitch", but police think a more probable motive is that she rejected his Gender : ual advances. They don't think it will be possible to locate her remains.
Some Age at the time of disappearance: ncies may list January 6, 1993 as the date of Petersen's disappearance. Her city of residence may be listed as Silver Springs, Florida.
Other information and links : ncy
Ocala Police Department
352-369-7000
September 2021 updates and sources
Child Protection Education of America
Florida Department of Law Enforcement
The Doe Network
Marion County Sheriff's Office
WFTV 9
October 12, 2004. September 9, 2018; Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.
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