Canada SHERRY LYNN RAIL: Missing from Vancouver, BC, Canada - 30 Jan 1984 - Age 27

531DFBC - Sherry Lynn Rail
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Name: Sherry Lynn Rail
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: January 30, 1984
Location Last Seen: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Physical Description
Date of Birth: September 8, 1956
Age: 27 years old
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 120 lbs.
Hair Color: Light Brown
Eye Color: Green
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: She has a tattoo of a butterfly on her left shoulder blade

Identifiers
Dentals: Not Available
Fingerprints: Not Available
DNA: Not Available

Clothing & Personal Items
Clothing: Unknown
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown

Circumstances of Disappearance
Sherry Rail is a known drug user and sex trade worker in the downtown east side area. She was reported missing in January 1987. Her case may be connected to many other missing and murdered women in Vancouver.

Investigating Agency(s)
Agency Name: Vancouver Missing Women's Tipline
Agency Contact Person: N/A
Agency Phone Number: 1-877-687-3377
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: 86-086028

NCIC Case Number: M577830498
NamUs Case Number: Unknown

Information Source(s)
Missing People


MEDIA - SHERRY LYNN RAIL: Missing from Vancouver, BC, Canada - 30 Jan 1984 - Age 27
 
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I would like to know why she wasn't reported missing for 3 Years. Who reported it?. I have read about the "Vancouver missing Women". It is an alarming number. But all connected is up for debate. They did take place over a long period of time.
 
I would like to know why she wasn't reported missing for 3 Years. Who reported it?. I have read about the "Vancouver missing Women". It is an alarming number. But all connected is up for debate. They did take place over a long period of time.
I think much of the time it's because a family member took off under negative circumstances and there's no one else in their life that knows or cares enough to make a report.

I know of a man who was off the grid for over 10 years. He died and the family never would have known, but he'd been to a VA doctor and listed his mother as an emergency contact. She hadn't even seen her son in over 20 years!
 
Someone did report it in her case 3 yrs later. Who? Why then?.
It is strange. Don't you wish we could just get some of those simple answers? I am sure LE knows who. So little info on some.

I wonder if she came up in talking to someone maybe about someone else missing... Maybe they asked, can you think of any others who just disappeared and they said, now that you mention it, so and so went missing around the same time... And now that I think about it, they both were involved with the same guy or some such...

It would seem most likely a family member and maybe it took that long to track down where she last was and what city or area to even report it in?
 
Yes. With that info there might be somewhere else to go with it. But with such little info there is so little of a chance in cases like this of them being solved.
For sure. So many are just so basic with such limited info. This one nowhere last seen, no clothing, etc. They got a date missing from somewhere but who even knows how accurate that is or where it came from. It does as you say limit the chances big time I imagine of them ever being solved. Finding a body and matching DNA is about the only chance with so many of these...
 
It is strange. Don't you wish we could just get some of those simple answers? I am sure LE knows who. So little info on some.

I wonder if she came up in talking to someone maybe about someone else missing... Maybe they asked, can you think of any others who just disappeared and they said, now that you mention it, so and so went missing around the same time... And now that I think about it, they both were involved with the same guy or some such...

It would seem most likely a family member and maybe it took that long to track down where she last was and what city or area to even report it in?
I remember a case, it may be listed on here, where the best friend reported a missing person because the rest of the woman's family had passed away!
 

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