1990 UM fan
08-26-2012, 09:10 AM
I don't know if anyone else has ever brought this up, but I can't help but think that Sherry Eyerly and Morris Davis' cases are somehow related. I don't think it's unusual for a criminal to pick out a certain kind of person to target, and in this case, pizza delivery personnel. Let's go over the cases, shall we?
Sherry Eyerly, an 18-year-old pizza delivery woman for a Domino's pizza restaurant in Salem, Oregon, disappeared on July 4th, 1982 after leaving to deliver a pizza to an address in a remote part of Salem around 9:30 pm. Her delivery van was later discovered abandoned, with 3 boxes of pizza scattered across the ground. There were no signs of a struggle, but police later determined that the address she was supposed to go to was fake, as well as the name of the person who placed the call. The call was placed from a hotel. A day later, an unidentified person called the Domino's where Sherry worked and demanded a ransom in exchange for her safe return. The caller never called back and no money was ever collected. A suspect named Darrell Wilson was questioned and he denied knowing Sherry, but later said he was acquainted with her. He drove a lime-green truck similar to one seen near the area where Sherry disappeared from. He later committed suicide after being questioned by police. Police searched his truck for physical evidence involving him in Sherry's disappearance but found none and cleared him as as suspect. In December of 2007, a man named William Scott Smith, who was already serving a life sentence for murdering 2 other Salem women, confessed to the abduction and murder of Sherry Eyerly. He stated that he and a now-deceased accomplice, Roger Noseff, had planned to abduct another female Domino's worker but was not on duty and abducted Sherry instead. Noseff was the one who placed the fake call. Smith said he strangled Sherry to death and threw her body in the Pudding River, where his other victims were found. Searches in the river yielded no trace of Sherry and police believe that due to flooding of the river since her disappearance, her remains may never be found. Her body has never been located to this day.
On April 5th, 1985 in Great Falls, Montana, police responded to a multiple shooting at a vacant house around 11 pm. One of the paramedics, Cliff Davis, recognized the victim as his own brother, Morris Davis, a Howard's Pizza delivery man. Morris later died at an area hospital, having been shot 8 times at point blank range. It was learned that whomever killed Morris, selected a vacant house to lure Morris to. The killer removed a "for sale" sign from the yard and called from another location. He forced his way through the back door of the home and waited for Morris. After shooting Morris 8 times, he stole Morris' delivery wallet. 3 years later on May 11th, 1988, police arrested a man who was driving a stolen car that was reported missing from Oregon 3 days prior. When they searched his pockets, they found 2 receipts from a pawn shop. One of the receipts was from a .22 caliber pistol, which was also reported stolen. The pistol's bullets matched the ones found at the Morris Davis crime scene. The man who sold the gun had stolen it from a friend. The man was cleared of any involvement in Morris' murder. The gun's owner was questioned in Morris Davis' murder and denied any involvement. Police could not find anything linking him to the crime and believe he has no knowledge of the murder. Police are still baffled as to who stole the gun, killed Morris Davis with it, and then returned it to the owner without anyone knowing.
Is it a coincidence that 2 pizza delivery personnel were murdered within 3 years of each other and 761 miles apart? I find it intruiging that both Sherry and Morris were each lured to a fake address when their killer or killers placed fake calls as oppose to any other approach to kill them at random. Are there any other bizarre unsolved murders of pizza delivery personnel around the northwest United States or elsewhere in the country around this same time period?
Sherry Eyerly, an 18-year-old pizza delivery woman for a Domino's pizza restaurant in Salem, Oregon, disappeared on July 4th, 1982 after leaving to deliver a pizza to an address in a remote part of Salem around 9:30 pm. Her delivery van was later discovered abandoned, with 3 boxes of pizza scattered across the ground. There were no signs of a struggle, but police later determined that the address she was supposed to go to was fake, as well as the name of the person who placed the call. The call was placed from a hotel. A day later, an unidentified person called the Domino's where Sherry worked and demanded a ransom in exchange for her safe return. The caller never called back and no money was ever collected. A suspect named Darrell Wilson was questioned and he denied knowing Sherry, but later said he was acquainted with her. He drove a lime-green truck similar to one seen near the area where Sherry disappeared from. He later committed suicide after being questioned by police. Police searched his truck for physical evidence involving him in Sherry's disappearance but found none and cleared him as as suspect. In December of 2007, a man named William Scott Smith, who was already serving a life sentence for murdering 2 other Salem women, confessed to the abduction and murder of Sherry Eyerly. He stated that he and a now-deceased accomplice, Roger Noseff, had planned to abduct another female Domino's worker but was not on duty and abducted Sherry instead. Noseff was the one who placed the fake call. Smith said he strangled Sherry to death and threw her body in the Pudding River, where his other victims were found. Searches in the river yielded no trace of Sherry and police believe that due to flooding of the river since her disappearance, her remains may never be found. Her body has never been located to this day.
On April 5th, 1985 in Great Falls, Montana, police responded to a multiple shooting at a vacant house around 11 pm. One of the paramedics, Cliff Davis, recognized the victim as his own brother, Morris Davis, a Howard's Pizza delivery man. Morris later died at an area hospital, having been shot 8 times at point blank range. It was learned that whomever killed Morris, selected a vacant house to lure Morris to. The killer removed a "for sale" sign from the yard and called from another location. He forced his way through the back door of the home and waited for Morris. After shooting Morris 8 times, he stole Morris' delivery wallet. 3 years later on May 11th, 1988, police arrested a man who was driving a stolen car that was reported missing from Oregon 3 days prior. When they searched his pockets, they found 2 receipts from a pawn shop. One of the receipts was from a .22 caliber pistol, which was also reported stolen. The pistol's bullets matched the ones found at the Morris Davis crime scene. The man who sold the gun had stolen it from a friend. The man was cleared of any involvement in Morris' murder. The gun's owner was questioned in Morris Davis' murder and denied any involvement. Police could not find anything linking him to the crime and believe he has no knowledge of the murder. Police are still baffled as to who stole the gun, killed Morris Davis with it, and then returned it to the owner without anyone knowing.
Is it a coincidence that 2 pizza delivery personnel were murdered within 3 years of each other and 761 miles apart? I find it intruiging that both Sherry and Morris were each lured to a fake address when their killer or killers placed fake calls as oppose to any other approach to kill them at random. Are there any other bizarre unsolved murders of pizza delivery personnel around the northwest United States or elsewhere in the country around this same time period?