Area cold case to be featured on 'America's Most Wanted'

NEW MADRID, Mo. -- America will be asked once again for its help in solving a Southeast Missouri cold case.

The television show "America's Most Wanted" will air a segment on an old homicide in Greenville, S.C., and its link to the March 28, 1998, murders of Sherri Ann Scherer and her 12-year-old daughter, Megan Elizabeth. The two were found dead at their rural home near Portageville, Mo.

The television show will be broadcast at 8 p.m. Saturday on Fox.

New Madrid County Sheriff Terry Stevens said while the Scherer case was previously featured on "America's Most Wanted," this segment focuses on the evidence linking the two crimes.

"The perpetrator [in the 1980 Greenville murder] is same as ours," Stevens said. "We hope by re-airing the Scherer case and from a new perspective, quite possibly it might trigger something in someone's memory that will bring us new leads."

According to Stevens, after the link between the two crimes was made by law enforcement an effort was made to find a person in common. "We have pretty much run that all the way out and haven't [come] up with anything substantial at this point," said Stevens.

Anyone with information about the murder is encouraged to call the New Madrid County Sheriff's Department at 573-748-2516.