Missing
Margaret E. Sherman
Sherman, approximately 1995; Sherman's vehicle; Kenny Slate, approximately 2007
Date and time person was reported missing : 08/02/1995
Missing location (approx) :
Indianapolis, Indiana
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 08/11/1967 (53)
Age at the time of disappearance: 27 years old
Height / Weight : 5'7, 180 - 196 pounds
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian female. Brown hair, blue eyes. Sherman wears eyeglasses. Her ears are pierced. Her nickname is Peggy.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Sherman was last seen at her residence in the 4500 block of east GEthnicity : Street on the east side of Indianapolis, Indiana on August 2, 1995. She left home to get her car repaired and has never been heard from again. Her parents reported her as a missing person when she did not show up for work at National City Bank.
Sherman's white four-door 1990 Chevrolet Lumina was discovered abandoned in Greenwood, Indiana several days after she was reported missing. A photo of the vehicle is posted with this case summary. There was no sign of Sherman at the scene.
Sherman's parents stated she kept $50,000 in cash in her freezer at the time of her disappearance. The money was missing when investigators searched the house. Inside Sherman's home was a mattress with some bloodstains and some sections cut out of it.
DNA tests proved the blood was Sherman's. Her blood was also found on all four walls of the room, on the ceiling, on a lamp and on the bedpost. Sherman kept a disabled car covered and parked in her garAge at the time of disappearance: in August 1995. The car cover disappeared at the same time she did.
The last person known to have seen Sherman prior to her disappearance was her live-in boyfriend, Kenny Slate. A photograph of Slate is posted with this case summary.
In 2007, Slate gave a media interview wherein he stated he believed Sherman had left of her own accord, possibly to go to Canada, when she went missing in 1995. He claimed she had mailed him a doll and some coins after her disappearance, but he did not produce the items for the reporter to see. Slate stated he had had a good relationship with Sherman and she loved him.
Authorities believe Sherman was most likely murdered. A grand jury investigated her disappearance, but no indictments were issued. Her case remains unsolved.
Other information and links : ncy
Indianapolis Police Department
317-327-6613
317-327-3811
September 2021 updates and sources
Indianapolis Police Department
WTHR 13
Indiana Missing Persons Bulletin
October 12, 2004. April 17, 2018; middle initial added.
Interactive Missing Person Search Map
