A woman is claiming a missing Cherri Mahan from Pennsylvania girl was missing since February 1985. She who was dropped off by her school bus. After that no one find out her. Pennsylvania State Police are investigating this case and the woman’s claim that she was 8 years old at that time, who vanished from the bus stop which from front of her home situated in Winfield Township, Butler County, nearly 40 years ago.
Cherrie was last seen getting off the bus at the bus stop at the bottom of her driveway just after 4 p.m. om Feb. 22, 1985, according to her active missing person case. Investigators said, A blue 1976 Dodge van with a mural of a skier on a mountain was seen nearby and may have been involved in her disappearance.
According to the local news publication, Cherrie’s mother, Janice McKinney doesn’t believe the woman claiming to be her now 46-year-old daughter is actually Cherrie. “I truly believe she thought in her mind that she was Cherrie,” McKinney told the Eagle. “It did not look anything like Cherrie at all.”
She is the fourth woman who to claim to be Cherrie in the year since the girl disappeared. A $500 award has long been offered to anyone who provides any information about Cherrie and an arrest. The heartbroken mother said she is used to seeing tips about Cherrie come in around the anniversary of her disappearance and her daughter’s birthday in August.
“In February and August, I expect craziness. This just hit me different,” she told the local publication. “I didn’t even see it. Someone called me and told me about it.” That every time someone claims to be her daughter, it hurts — even if she doesn’t believe them, McKinney said.
“If you wanted your 15 minutes of fame, you’ve already blown it,” she said. “People are mean, they are cruel, but this affects me really crazy. It’s gonna be 40 years since Cherrie’s been missing.” McKinney knows that the real Cherrie is being cared for, whether dead or alive.
McKinley said, “I’ve always felt that she was OK,” she said. “If she was dead, she is in heaven with my parents and my brothers. If she was alive, someone was taking care of her. I don’t know why I feel that way.” She added “I wish that we [every investigator who has looked into Cherrie’s case] could all get together and sit and talk”. “There’s something somebody missed somewhere, and somebody knows.” Pennsylvania State Police didn’t immediately return a request for information.