Killer Was In and Out in 30 Minutes - Left Behind Disturbing Scene | Scherer Family

September 21, 2026

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It was a little after 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 28, 1998, when 15-year-old Stephen Sherer walked into his family’s living room in rural Portageville, Missouri. He saw his mother, Sherry, and his 12-year-old sister, Megan, lying on the floor. His first thought was that they were pranking him—he was the family jokester, and this looked like an elaborate setup. But they didn’t move. When he touched his mother, she was still warm. When he touched Megan, she was cold. He ran to his father, Tony, who had been flipping through mail in the hallway, and blurted out that they were dead. Tony called 911 at 7:09 p.m. Seven minutes later, the first officers arrived at the isolated farmhouse on County Road 419. What they found inside would haunt them for decades.

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2 (00:00) **The Discovery** - Tony and his 15-year-old son Stephen return home to find Sherry and Megan dead on the living room floor
3 (05:00) **Who Sherry Was** - Background on Sherry Ann Walker, born 1959 in Portageville, Missouri, the only daughter among four children
4 (08:36) **Life on County Highway 419** - The family's isolated farmhouse in rural Missouri, visible from Interstate 55
5 (10:50) **Megan Elizabeth Sherer** - The 12-year-old was a straight-A student, talented basketball player, and accomplished public speaker
6 (13:58) **The Technology of 1998** - Cell phones existed but were primitive; farmers like Tony were early adopters for practical reasons
7 (16:10) **The Day of the Murders** - March 28, 1998: Tony and Stephen worked on a tractor all day; Sherry and Megan cleaned dog pens

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Show Notes

THIS IS PART ONE OF A THREE-PART SERIES - Watch part two: HERE

Hello everyone, I'm going to be in London for the next two weeks at CrimeCon UK, so I prepared a three-part series for you to watch while I am away. THIS is the first installment.

On Saturday, March 28, 1998, a mother and daughter living on a farm with their family in Portageville, Missouri, were found dead in their home. This was a farm town of about 3,300 people where nobody locked their doors because out there, whoever came up your driveway was somebody you knew or somebody who needed help.In this episode, we go through the case from the beginning. Who Sherri and Megan were, what that town was like in 1998, everything investigators found, and why a case with this much evidence went nowhere for years. This is Part One.

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