The case of an 18-year-old who disappeared 18 years ago is quite similar to that of a California mother of two who was abducted for three weeks before she was found beside an interstate highway, People magazine reported.
On Aug. 22, 1998, then-16-year-old Tera Smith, a high school student in Redding, California, left home to go jogging—only to never be seen again.
Smith was a schoolmate of Sherri Papini, the aforementioned mother who went missing last month. She also went jogging on Nov. 2 near Redding—about two miles from where Smith vanished. Sherri was found on Thanksgiving Day—beaten, branded, and emaciated.
Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko told People that despite the similarities, investigators have “not developed any evidence the two cases are linked.”
Bosenko, however, in separate comments to ABC News, said that he hoped Sherri’s case wouldn’t turn into another unsolved mystery.
“It was on the investigators’ minds. In fact, there is a resemblance of Tera Smith and Mrs. Papini, which made it maybe even a little bit more eerie,” Bosenko told the network.
