In December of 1973, John Swalley, the father of 8-year-old Sherri Swalley and her 5-year-old brother decided that they were going to Disneyland in Florida for Christmas. They were planning on driving from Ohio to Florida. On December 23, 1973, they had stopped in Atlanta, Georgia. They were visiting a friend at the Pace Setters apartments and spend the night.
Sherri and her brother played with other children from the apartment complex. Sherri was last seen when a lady who lived in the apartment complex had asked Sherri to go and invite her dad and those they were staying with to dinner. That was around 8 p.m. and was the last time anyone saw Sherri alive. It was possible she was last seen with a teenager that night.
Sherri was found the next morning around 10:30 a.m. in view of 150 apartments in front of the woods. It was obvious that she had been dragged into the woods where she was sexually assaulted and stabbed in the chest and her face was slashed. The weapon was a thin blade knife. After the attack, her killer dragged her out of the woods to where she was found the next morning.
SOURCES:
Atlanta Police Department
The Marion Star
Dayton Daily News
The Greenville News
The Atlanta Voice
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