Sherry Jo Bates in Podcasts
personAmerican victim of the Zodiac Killer, murdered in Riverside, California, in 1966.
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But Sherry fought back, which gave investigators this crucial evidence to examine because they discovered skin and hair were underneath her fingernails. And forensics revealed that to belong to a brown-haired white man. There were also footprints in the area. They were between the sizes of 8 and 10, and they were from a military-grade shoe.
So the victim that reporter Paul Avery is looking into was named Sherry Jo Bates. She was an 18-year-old Riverside City College student who had been killed in 1966. She was popular. She was really pretty. She had these striking blue eyes and blonde hair. And her dream was to be an airline stewardess, which we talked about back in the day.