Pittsburgh Post Gazette/ Mnbc 2014

 McKinney was a 16-year-old single mother when Cherrie was born, and 25 years old when she disappeared. Now 50, McKinney believes what psychics Suzanne and Jean Vincent  told her a couple of years ago: that Cherrie was kidnapped by someone she knew. McKinney told the AP that the psychics told her the kidnapper was "not like somebody that was her best friend or anything, but like somebody Cherrie had talked to once or had seen once. My daughter wasn't shy. She was friendly.  She would talk to you if you talked to her. "McGraw has told McKinney that her daughter is unlikely to be alive. McKinney has come to terms with that idea, intellectually at least." In my heart, when anybody ever talks about her, I have always believed that she was (alive)," McKinney said, "But in my head I knew and just prayed every night that she didn't suffer, that it was quick, it was painless, that they didn't torture her."  

Psychic Sisters Suzanne and Jean Vincent  in This article about Cherrie Mahan and their psychic Vision as to who took Cherrie Mahan

Mary Ann Thomas  | Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023 6:01 a.m.

https://triblive.com/local/valley-news-dispatch/police-and-psychics-step-up-efforts-to-find-who-took-cherrie-mahan-38-years-ago/

Law enforcement and Butler’s psychic sisters are frustrated by a 38-year search for a suspect in the abduction of Cherrie Mahan from a rural bus stop in Winfield Township.

But they are trying harder and upping their efforts to find answers around the anniversary of the 8-year-old’s disappearance Feb. 22, 1985. Although Mahan was legally declared dead in 1998, police and family still hold out hope.

Mahan’s case is open.

State police welcomed two investigators from Team Adam of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to the Butler station last week. They are reviewing some of the files of the case, a voluminous dive into 5,000 typewritten reports, plus notes, attachments, photos and more, said Trooper Max DeLuca, who has been leading the investigation.

“I hope someone comes through with some good firsthand knowledge,” DeLuca said. “Someone has to know something.”

He said he doesn’t want to speculate whether Mahan’s disappearance was caused by someone who knew her.

“It’s a unique case in the fact that it happened in an area that is so rural,” he said. 

Police can only hope to receive more viable, solid tips from someone with direct knowledge.

“Hopefully, over time, it has started to eat away at them or someone they confided in,” DeLuca said.

The Vincent sisters, psychics from Butler County, will walk and pray with Mahan’s mother, Janice McKinney, to memorialize Cherrie and observe her disappearance at 4:05 p.m. today at McKinney’s former home along Cornplanter Road in Winfield.

A Winfield Elementary School bus dropped off Cherrie and some other students about 500 feet from her driveway along Cornplanter Road 38 years ago. A blue van with a mountain and skier on the side was parked near her driveway, according to eyewitness reports.

Cherrie’s disappearance became national news. The young, doe-eyed girl with an impish grin became the first person featured on the famous “Have you seen me?” circulars produced by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

McKinney believes someone is alive who can tell the story about what happened to Cherrie.

“I just pray all the time that they would find it in their heart to just tell somebody,” she said. “I truly believe there are people out there who know what happened to Cherrie. Either they are afraid, or … I don’t know.” 

When McKinney, 62, wants to think about her lost child, all she has to do is look at the tattoo she got last year on her left hand. The purple ink is stenciled from a note in Cherrie’s handwriting when she was 6 that says “I love you, Cherrie.”

McKinney of Jefferson Township is the director of the housekeeping department at Washington Place in Richland Township.

“I worked 40 years in a nursing home. Death and dying is something I know about,” she said. “But not knowing where she is, whether she’s dead or alive, it’s like a never-ending story. It sucks the life out of me.”

McKinney has made statements over the years about possible suspects, including an acquaintance of Cherrie’s biological father, who McKinney said raped her when she was 15 and has never been identified publicly. 

When McKinney, 62, wants to think about her lost child, all she has to do is look at the tattoo she got last year on her left hand. The purple ink is stenciled from a note in Cherrie’s handwriting when she was 6 that says “I love you, Cherrie.”

McKinney of Jefferson Township is the director of the housekeeping department at Washington Place in Richland Township.

“I worked 40 years in a nursing home. Death and dying is something I know about,” she said. “But not knowing where she is, whether she’s dead or alive, it’s like a never-ending story. It sucks the life out of me.”

McKinney has made statements over the years about possible suspects, including an acquaintance of Cherrie’s biological father, who McKinney said raped her when she was 15 and has never been identified publicly. 

McKinney said Cherrie’s father still lives in Butler County and was local to where she grew up in Clinton Township.

“The person who I said was her father never wanted to admit to it,” she said.

McKinney said the father knew a biker gang she felt was dangerous, but she doesn’t know if they were violent. A pedophile still is a possibility, McKinney said.

“People didn’t talk about it then. It’s not like the sex offenders we know today through Megan’s Law,” she said.

“I don’t think that I ever knew somebody or anybody who knew me had that streak in them to do something this crazy,” McKinney said. 

The psychic sisters

The Vincent sisters don’t think Cherrie is alive but they hold out hope for the family.

The sisters from Butler County have been psychic sleuthing for decades and continue to be featured in national television programs, including one helping police crack the 2006 murder of Blairsville dentist Dr. John Yelenic. These psychic detective mediums volunteer their services to families of victims and police.

DeLuca said state police take tips from the sisters and run them down as they do with all the tips they receive.

Jean Vincent said in talking and holding readings with Cherrie’s family and others since she went missing, she thinks the young girl was taken by a local pedophile from a family with a history of pedophilia.

“Cherrie was a tough little girl, she was growing up and fought (with the pedophile),” Vincent said.

The women believe that there were two men involved in Cherrie’s abduction.

The men have connections to the Saxonburg, Cabot, Freeport, Harrison, Tarentum and Sharpsburg area, the sisters believe. The sisters believe Cherrie’s remains are buried somewhere in Butler County.

“I feel we have a good chance of solving this,” the women said. “We feel this is the right time and someone is feeling remorse or guilt. They have held this secret all these years and it’s eating away. They’ll want to get it off their chest.”S

Psychic Sisters Suzanne and Jean Vincent  in This article about Cherrie Mahan and their Psychic Vision 

 Police Re Open Cold Case of Cherrie Mahan  After New Tip    MSNBC January 14, 2011

State police are getting help from two psychic investigators to crack a 1985 missing person case that was just reopened after a new lead emerged on Wednesday. They announced that someone walked into the state police barracks and gave what investigators believe may be the most promising tip yet in the investigation into what happened to Cherry Mayham.

“It’s like they just appeared out of the blue. The timing was strange—like they were sent here for a reason,” said Trooper Robert McGraw of the Pennsylvania State Police. 

Eight-year-old cherry disappeared February 22, 1985 after she got off the school bus on Cornplanter Road in Butler County. She was never seen again after 26 years. All I pray for is just an answer. You know something that is credible and is going to let me know exactly what happened to Cherry said McKinney cherry’s mother police will not say what the new  “Police will not say what the new information is or identify the witness. They also won’t say when the person came forward or why they waited 26 years. However, they did tell Channel 4 Action News reporter Ari Haidt that they are working with two local psychic sisters, Suzanne and Jean Vincent.” information is

 MSNBC January 11 2014

PITTSBURGH—A new tip about an 8-year-old girl who was the first child featured on the "Have You Seen Me?" direct-mail advertisements leaves little hope that she is still alive after nearly 26 years but provides the best chance yet of determining what happened to her, state police said.

Cherrie Mahan was last seen stepping off a school bus in 1985. Later that year, she was featured on the first "Have You Seen Me?" mailings by Advo Inc., a company since acquired by Valassis Inc. of Livonia, Mich. According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, more than half of 2,100 children pictured on the fliers have been found -- including 150 directly by tips generated by the fliers.

But not Cherrie.

Trooper Robert McGraw said he's optimistic that's about to change.

McGraw said new information has come from someone "who would have known Cherrie" and that it "has the potential to lead us to a known specific actor or actors."

McGraw won't say who walked into the state police barracks in Butler or even when it occurred.

"Their information has the potential to be crucial," McGraw told The Associated Press. "This is more specific information than has been brought to our attention in a long, long time." He said the new information makes it "highly unlikely that she is alive."

What little is known about Cherrie's disappearance has been oft-repeated by newspapers, TV and radio stations.

A motorist saw her get off the bus on Feb. 22, 1985, near a bluish-green van with a skier painted on the side. As the bus stopped to allow traffic to pass, the van disappeared -- and so did Cherrie. Her stepfather found only tire prints at the stop 50 yards from their home in Winfield Township, about 25 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.

Through the years, most leads have involving alleged sightings of the "skier van" or of Cherrie herself -- some fueled by age-enhanced drawings that police have issued periodically. McGraw said the latest information "is not like another sighting of Cherrie or another tip about the van."

Cherrie's mother, Janice McKinney, keeps Cherrie's 2010 age-enhanced likeness on her desk at a Pittsburgh-area retirement community where she heads the housekeeping department.

McKinney was a 16-year-old single mother when Cherrie was born, and 25 years old when she disappeared. Now 50, McKinney believes what psychics Suzanne and Jean Vincent  told her a couple of years ago: that Cherrie was kidnapped by someone she knew.

McKinney told the AP that the psychics told her the kidnapper was "not like somebody that was her best friend or anything, but like somebody Cherrie had talked to once or had seen once. My daughter wasn't shy. She was friendly.  She would talk to you if you talked to her."

McGraw has told McKinney that her daughter is unlikely to be alive. McKinney has come to terms with that idea, intellectually at least.

"In my heart, when anybody ever talks about her, I have always believed that she was (alive)," McKinney said, "But in my head I knew and just prayed every night that she didn't suffer, that it was quick, it was painless, that they didn't torture her."

McGraw won't say what police believe for fear of derailing the investigation. He wouldn't even say if the person that came forward recently would have been an adult or a child -- perhaps another one on the bus? -- when Cherrie disappeared. But, he insists, "This information has the Pennsylvania State Police highly optimistic" that they'll solve the mystery.

Police won't tell McKinney who the tipster is, but McKinney is disturbed that the person knew Cherrie. That means the person also likely knew McKinney and likely is acquainted with her grief through countless media stories about Cherrie's disappearance.

McKinney's pain is largely driven by uncertainty.

"When people die there's that grieving process," McKinney said. "But mine's been going on for 26 years."

"My husband is a Vietnam veteran and all those men that were missing, you know that they're dead but you never get over it because you've never held them or looked in that coffin and saw that body and so you can never say goodbye," she said.

Even if it's only through a police report or a criminal complaint, McKinney said, "I just wish to know exactly what happened and have something to hold in my hand and say goodbye."

© Copyright 2011 Associated Press. All rights reserved. 

Thirty-five years ago, Cherrie Mahan stepped off of her school bus, started the walk toward her driveway, and disappeared. Since that dark day more than three decades ago, Cherrie, the eight-year-old with the big brown eyes and the pretty smile, has become a part of Pittsburgh’s collective memory. Each year, the media shines the spotlight on her case on the anniversary of her disappearance, in the hopes that this is the year we’ll find out what happened to Cherrie.

Psychic Sisters Suzanne and Jean Vincent  in This article about Cherrie Mahan and their psychic Vision as to who took her

Mary Ann Thomas  | Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023 6:01 a.m.

https://triblive.com/local/valley-news-dispatch/police-and-psychics-step-up-efforts-to-find-who-took-cherrie-mahan-38-years-ago

Law enforcement and Butler’s psychic sisters are frustrated by a 38-year search for a suspect in the abduction of Cherrie Mahan from a rural bus stop in Winfield Township.

But they are trying harder and upping their efforts to find answers around the anniversary of the 8-year-old’s disappearance Feb. 22, 1985. Although Mahan was legally declared dead in 1998, police and family still hold out hope.

Mahan’s case is open.

State police welcomed two investigators from Team Adam of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to the Butler station last week. They are reviewing some of the files of the case, a voluminous dive into 5,000 typewritten reports, plus notes, attachments, photos and more, said Trooper Max DeLuca, who has been leading the investigation.

“I hope someone comes through with some good firsthand knowledge,” DeLuca said. “Someone has to know something.”

He said he doesn’t want to speculate whether Mahan’s disappearance was caused by someone who knew her.

“It’s a unique case in the fact that it happened in an area that is so rural,” he said. 

Police can only hope to receive more viable, solid tips from someone with direct knowledge.

“Hopefully, over time, it has started to eat away at them or someone they confided in,” DeLuca said.

The Vincent sisters, psychics from Butler County, will walk and pray with Mahan’s mother, Janice McKinney, to memorialize Cherrie and observe her disappearance at 4:05 p.m. today at McKinney’s former home along Cornplanter Road in Winfield.

A Winfield Elementary School bus dropped off Cherrie and some other students about 500 feet from her driveway along Cornplanter Road 38 years ago. A blue van with a mountain and skier on the side was parked near her driveway, according to eyewitness reports.

The Psychic Sister's

The Vincent sisters don’t think Cherrie is alive but they hold out hope for the family.

The sisters from Butler County have been psychic sleuthing for decades and continue to be featured in national television programs, including one helping police crack the 2006 murder of Blairsville dentist Dr. John Yelenic. These psychic detective mediums volunteer their services to families of victims and police.

DeLuca said state police take tips from the sisters and run them down as they do with all the tips they receive.

Jean Vincent said in talking and holding readings with Cherrie’s family and others since she went missing, she thinks the young girl was taken by a local pedophile from a family with a history of pedophilia.

“Cherrie was a tough little girl, she was growing up and fought (with the pedophile),” Vincent said.

The women believe that there were two men involved in Cherrie’s abduction.

The men have connections to the Saxonburg, Cabot, Freeport, Harrison, Tarentum and Sharpsburg area, the sisters believe. The sisters believe Cherrie’s remains are buried somewhere in Butler County.

“I feel we have a good chance of solving this,” the women said. “We feel this is the right time and someone is feeling remorse or guilt. They have held this secret all these years and it’s eating away. They’ll want to get it off their chest.”

https://triblive.com/local/valley-news-dispatch/police-and-psychics-step-up-efforts-to-find-who-took-cherrie-mahan-38-years-agot

 State police are getting help from two psychics investigators to crack 1985 missing case just reopened after a new lead on Wednesday, they announced someone walk in the state police barracks and gave investigators perhaps the most promising tip they received yet into the investigation into what happen to Cherrie Mahan  

  Suzanne Vincent and Jean Vincent  have been a  life long researcher in the fields of the Paranormal and Metaphysical,  it was only natural for them to develop an interest in these mystical fields.  Having been brought, up Roman Catholic and Spiritualist gave Suzanne and Jean  great insights into the miraculous as well as the phenomena of the worlds around us.   As a mediums, Suzanne  and Jean have  taken training through the Puritan Spiritualist Church part of the  National Spiritualist Association of Churches,  as well as under the tutorage of many influential instructors.

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