Hey y’all and welcome to Southern Macabre! A true crime, missing person, and paranormal podcast and blog set in the south. Today is the first episode of Missing Person Monday and I decided to choose one person from each southern state to tell you about.
Some are people who left their homes and vanished, while others may just send a chill up your spine. One is actually a dangerous wanted fugitive!
Photos of the missing will be on the Southern Macabre Podcast and Blog Facebook page. You will find the transcript for this episode along with the police department you should reach if you recognize anyone from today’s episode on the blog.
The first missing person I want to talk about vanished 37 years ago from Greenville, Alabama. Her name was Sherry Lynn Marler and she was only twelve years old that day when she and her step-dad, Raymond Stringfellow, went to the bank and he gave her $1 to grab a soda from the gas station across the street. This was 1984 so a drink was less than a dollar, for those too young to know that.
Her step-dad maintained his innocence until he passed away in 2003, he was inside the bank so he had a solid alibi.
Since 1984, people have reported seeing Sherry with a man in his fifties who was about 5’8” with a weathered looking face. Like someone who spends their whole life working outdoors. She was seen in Conley, Georgia, and New Orleans.
Sherry was white with brown hair and brown eyes.
Greenville PD (334) 382-3107
Agency Case # 8415816
Esterlyne Delmas was twenty-three years old when she walked away from her home in Immokalee, Florida on August 3, 2013. She didn’t take her keys, purse, or ID so it is assumed she didn’t intend to be gone long. She was never seen or heard from again.
Esterlyne had moved to Florida from Haiti years before, but there’s not a lot of information about her or her disappearance. She is listed as African American/Latino. She was 5’1” and had black-brown hair and brown eyes.
Collier County Sheriff's Office (239) 252-0080
Case # 13-18797
42 year old Matilde Hernandez Gonzalez went missing from Powder Springs, Georgia on October 11, 2019. According to WSB-TV 2 there are “suspicious circumstances” related to her disappearance.
Matilde was Latina, 4’11” tall, and weighed about 130 pounds. She had brown hair, brown eyes, and her eyebrows are tattooed.
Paulding County Sheriff's Office (770) 443-3010
Case # 20191043402
This story is different from the last three. Austin Douglas Gamez (not Gomez) left with his friend, Teressa McCoy on December 27, 2017 to look at a house. They lived in Louisville, Kentucky.
At 7pm the couple’s rented black GMC Yukon was found in a part’s store parking lot with Teressa’s body inside. She was still wearing her seatbelt, but had been shot.
Larry Sauer was arrested in December 2019 for Teressa’s murder and Austin’s presumed murder. He killed the couple at his home and then dumped the truck with Teressa inside afterwards.
Police found evidence through warrants, witness statements, phone records, and audio recordings identifying Sauer’s involvement in both murders. Austin’s remains were never located.
Police found half a pound of methamphetamines and some drug paraphernalia inside Sauer’s home when they arrested him.
Charges were dropped two months later because of a misread DNA analysis report, but he was charged with complicity to murder and tampering with physical evidence.
Austin’s family would like his body found so they can give him a proper burial. He was white/Latino, 5’11”-6’1”, 170-185 pounds, and he had a rosary tattoo on his chest and many tattoos on his arms.
Louisville Metro PD (502) 574-7111
Case # 80-17-104905
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