Missing
Sherry Marie Myers
Myers, approximately 2011
Date and time person was reported missing : 08/09/2011
Missing location (approx) :
Oceana, West Virginia
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White
Age at the time of disappearance: 34 years old
Height / Weight : 5'5 - 5'7, 141- 170 pounds
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian female. Black hair. Myers has a tattoo of a butterfly on one arm.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Myers was last seen in Oceana, West Virginia on August 9, 2011. Someone in a pickup truck outside Oceana Parking Lot blew the horn, and Myers spoke to the driver and then got into the vehicle.
On August 11, she spoke to someone on the phone; this was the last contact with her. She has never been heard from again. Myers was reported missing on August 23.
Three other people vanished in the same general vicinity as Myers during the summer of 2011. Two of them, Rachel Michelle Toler and Chester Stewart, have since been found deceased.
Toler's dismembered remains were found scattered among the trees in the Stewart Cemetery, and Stewart's body was found weighted with cinder blocks and dumped in nine feet of water in a swimming pool behind an abandoned house down the road from the cemetery. Myers and the fourth person, Brian Cook, are still missing.
The four of them apparently knew each other and police believe there could be a connection between the cases; they theorize that Myers and Cook's disappearances and Toler and Stewart's murders could be drug-related. The cases remain unsolved.
Other information and links : ncy
Wyoming County Sheriff's Department
304-732-8000
Ocean Police Department
304-682-8311
September 2021 updates and sources
WVNS TV 59
The State Journal
The Register-Herald
The Charleston Gazette-Mail
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October 12, 2004. November 2, 2016, middle name and alternate Height / Weight : added, Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.
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