JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Sherry Prather was last seen leaving a bar called Boot n Bottles. The bar closed a few months ago. She was captured on surveillance video leaving on the back of a motorcycle two years ago.
Prather's mother's pain is still as agonizing as it was the day her daughter vanished on Oct. 5 2012.
On Nov. 14 of that same year, a piece of her body turned up in a wooded area.
“She had neck surgery and she had a bone put in and it had a number on it and that's how they identified her. And that was the only bone they found,” said Norma Ellis, her mother.
But it wasn't enough to find a link to Prather's killer.
All investigators had was this surveillance video -- taken from the parking lot of the boots and bottles bar in ocean way.
Action News was first to obtain the video in 2012.
You could see Prather stumbling around, then she gets on the back of a man's motorcycle and takes off, never to be seen or heard from again.
“They know who he is but there's nothing they can do,” Ellis said.
Norma Ellis told Action News that investigators interviewed the man in the video.
“He gave her a ride and let her off at the trout river somewhere,” Ellis said.
But how she ended up dead is what Ellis so desperately wants to know.
“The thought of her laying there bleeding to death is the part that I can't take and then the animals eating her. The wild animals tore her all to pieces,” Ellis said.
Friday marks two years to the day when the remains of the mother of two were found.
Her mother has a message for the killer.
“I hope you have a family and you never have to go through what I've gone through,” Ellis said.
Her mother says that video is the last link she had of her daughter and now all she's left with is unanswered questions.
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