Tag: Domestic Violence Awareness

Episode 170-The Murder of Sherri Jackson in North Carolina

The week after Thanksgiving in 2006, friends and family of 27-year-old Sherri Jackson were concerned. She didn’t attend a party she’d RSVP’d for and no one had heard from her. They knew she wouldn’t leave town without telling anyone or notifying her job. Sherri failed to pick up her paycheck from Shipman Family Care the week after Thanksgiving. This was when Sherri’s family knew for certain that something was wrong. Sherri was born in...

Episode 85-Denise Durham, Shelby Wilkie, and Marissa Carmichael

Pamela Denise Durham, known as Denise to her friends, was a 16-year-old high school student at East Henderson High School. She lived in East Flat Rock, North Carolina. According to an article that ran in the February 15, 1981 edition of The Asheville Citizen Times, Denise Durham was a model student. She was the secretary of the student council, an honors program student, and a band member who played the clarinet. Her life was going smoothly,...