On a rainy evening in Mobile County, Alabama, on October 16, 1976, 23-year-old Cheryl Lynn Payton was working as a clerk at a Compact convenience store. That night, she was abducted at gunpoint from her place of work. Signs of a struggle were later found at the deserted store, including an overturned Coke machine and a broken six-pack of sodas. Her husband had dropped her off at work earlier that afternoon, the last time he would see her alive.
The man who took her was Thomas Warren Whise
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