The Glove That Stayed Silent for Thirty-One Years

The Glove That Stayed Silent for Thirty-One Years

Cold alley, a neatly placed men's dress glove, and a fourteen-year-old paperboy who ran four blocks to the police - the scene waited thirty-one years for its loudest clue. The glove was a right-hand chocolate brown leather, size large, laid on Sherry Sharp's chest; could a misfiled evidence box and forgotten delivery records finally tell who put it there?

In this episode, we follow the chain of events from the January 9, 1973 discovery through the original investigation and the decades it lay dormant, asking whether the misplaced evidence and the documents found in the same box change everything we thought about the case.

Person: Sherry Sharp Date: January 9, 1973 Location: Alley behind Prater Street, Hollins Ferry Finder: Kent Donnelly, age 14 Evidence Box: HF-73-009

- The glove was a men's dress glove, right hand, chocolate brown leather, size large, with no manufacturer's label and no recoverable fingerprints. - Sherry Sharp was 24 years old and worked the lunch and dinner shifts at the Fieldstone Grill; she planned to return to college in fall 1974. - Kent Donnelly ran four blocks to the police substation on Mead Avenue after finding Sherry because his bicycle chain had slipped. - Detective Clyde Ostrander interviewed 41 people and listed 11 suspects, underlining Ray Pruitt's name twice; Pruitt had been Sherry's boyfriend until October 1972. - In summer 2003 the evidence box HF-73-009 was found misplaced; inside were the glove sealed in its original bag and Callum Brothers Supply delivery records never previously read.

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