Case Details
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- Missing Since:
- Missing Since 12/24/1992
- Missing From:
- Missing From Ocala, Florida
- Classification:
- Classification Endangered Missing
- Gender:
- Female
- Race:
- Race White
- Date of Birth:
- Date of Birth 02/22/1950 (74)
- Age:
- Age 42 years old
- Height and Weight:
- Height and Weight 5’6 – 5’7, 135 pounds
- Clothing/Jewelry Description:
- Distinguishing Characteristics:
- Distinguishing Characteristics 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 agencies spell her last name “Peterson” or call her Sherry Yon Petersen.
- Details of Disappearance:
- In December 1992, a woman named Petersen disappeared. She lived in Ocala, Florida, and was planning a holiday visit to her parents in Lakeland. She sent her kids to her parents’ house on Christmas Eve and promised to call her mom Christmas morning. She never did.
Years later, in 2018, police closed the case. They believe Frank Crow killed her, even though they haven’t found her body and can’t charge him. Crow, already in prison for a different murder, confessed to killing Petersen in exchange for protection from prosecution because of his age and health.
Crow said he met Petersen, they went out, and he killed her by Lake Catherine, then disposed of her body parts in the Ocala National Forest. He claimed she was a “snitch,” but police think he likely killed her because she rejected him. Finding her remains is unlikely.
Some records might show her disappearance date as January 6, 1993, and her town of residence as Silver Springs, Florida.
- Agency:
- Ocala Police Department 352-369-7000
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This person was missing Missing Since 12/24/1992