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2007 Sheddy, Christine Marie 11/13/2007; POCOMOKE CITY, MD - found deceased
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DELAWARE: Search expands to Del. for mother missing for 2 weeks
By Candice Evans, Staff Writer

Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2007 at 9:34 am
POCOMOKE CITY, Md. – Christine Marie Sheddy stayed behind with her two sons when a Pocomoke couple left their home to pick up their children from school, according to Lynn Dodenhoff, Sheddy's mother.

"When they returned, Christine was gone and the boys were home alone," Dodenhoff, 50, said Tuesday.

The Worcester County Sheriff's Office continues to look for Sheddy, 26, who disappeared more than two weeks ago. She was last seen Nov. 13 in the area of Byrd Road in Pocomoke City.

"We still don't know where she is," said Detective Robert Trautman of the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation, who is handling the case. "We've expanded our search to Delaware and Virginia."

Sheddy and her two sons, ages 2 and 4, were staying with Dodenhoff at her Bowers Beach home before traveling to Pocomoke City. Sheddy told her mother she was visiting a couple she met through her boyfriend, who is also the father of her children, Dodenhoff said.

"Christine was supposed to come back here and pack her stuff to visit her sister in Philadelphia on Nov. 17," Dodenhoff said. "Nobody has heard from her, and she's never left her children home alone."

Currently, Sheddy's two boys are staying with their father, said Trautman, who doesn't suspect any foul play in this investigation.

"I've always known where she was," said Dodenhoff. "Even when we've gotten in an argument, she always called me."

Sheddy is 5-foot-3 and weighs 100 pounds. Anyone with information on Sheddy's location or disappearance is asked to call Trautman at (410) 352-3476 or (800) 811-8396

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WORCESTER: Police seek missing woman

Daily Times Staff Report

POCOMOKE — The Worcester County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a woman who disappeared more than a week ago.

Christine Marie Sheddy, 26 was last seen on Nov. 13 in the Byrd Road area of Pocomoke, police said.

Sheddy is a 5-foot-3-inch woman and weighs 100 pounds.

Anyone with information on Sheddy’s location or disappearance is asked to call Detective Robert Trautman of the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation at 410-352-3476.
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Search expands to Del. for mother missing for 2 weeks

By CANDICE EVANS, The (Salisbury, Md.) Daily Times

Updated Wednesday, November 28, 2007 at 9:28 am

POCOMOKE CITY, Md. – Christine Marie Sheddy stayed behind with her two sons when a Pocomoke couple left their home to pick up their children from school, according to Lynn Dodenhoff, Sheddy's mother.

"When they returned, Christine was gone and the boys were home alone," Dodenhoff, 50, said Tuesday.

The Worcester County Sheriff's Office continues to look for Sheddy, 26, who disappeared more than two weeks ago. She was last seen Nov. 13 in the area of Byrd Road in Pocomoke City.

"We still don't know where she is," said Detective Robert Trautman of the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation, who is handling the case. "We've expanded our search to Delaware and Virginia."

Sheddy and her two sons, ages 2 and 4, were staying with Dodenhoff at her Bowers Beach home before traveling to Pocomoke City. Sheddy told her mother she was visiting a couple she met through her boyfriend, who is also the father of her children, Dodenhoff said.

"Christine was supposed to come back here and pack her stuff to visit her sister in Philadelphia on Nov. 17," Dodenhoff said. "Nobody has heard from her, and she's never left her children home alone."

Currently, Sheddy's two boys are staying with their father, said Trautman, who doesn't suspect any foul play in this investigation.

"I've always known where she was," said Dodenhoff. "Even when we've gotten in an argument, she always called me."

Sheddy is 5-foot-3 and weighs 100 pounds. Anyone with information on Sheddy's location or disappearance is asked to call Trautman at (410) 352-3476 or (800) 811-8396.



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Search Continues For Woman Last Seen In Pocomoke

By Shawn J. Soper, News Editor
Originally published November 30, 2007

BERLIN – Worcester County law enforcement agencies this week have expanded their search for a Delaware woman and mother of two who went missing in the Pocomoke area over two weeks ago.

Christine Marie Sheddy, 26, of Bowers Beach, Del., was last seen on Nov. 13 in the Byrd Street area of Pocomoke. She has been missing now for over two weeks, touching off a search effort across Worcester County that has now been expanded to include neighboring Delaware and Virginia.

“We don’t have any more information on the missing woman,” said Worcester County Sheriff’s Department Public Information Officer Sgt. Ed Schreier this week. “We have conducted searches in the area and have not been able to locate her yet,”

Sheddy left her Bowers Beach, Del. home on Nov. 13 with her two sons, ages two and four, in tow to visit a couple in Pocomoke she had met earlier through her boyfriend. Sheddy remained behind with her two sons at the Pocomoke residence while the couple went to pick up their own children at school.

When the couple returned, Sheddy was gone and her two boys were left home alone. Sheddy was supposed to have returned to her Bowers Beach residence on Nov. 17. She was reported missing, touching off a search throughout the county and beyond. According to reports, Sheddy’s two sons are now staying with their father.

The Worcester County Bureau of Investigation (WCBI) has taken the lead on the case with the cooperation of allied law enforcement agencies although WCBI detectives do not suspect foul play at this time.

Sheddy’s information has been submitted to other law enforcement agencies in the county including Ocean City. Her picture and description has been circulated to the allied agencies.

“We have her information in our data base and her picture and description has become part of our routine roll call each day,” said Ocean City Police Department’s Barry Neeb. “We haven’t been given any indication she might be in Ocean City, but we remain on the lookout for her.”

Sheddy is 5-feet, 3-inches tall and weighs around 100 pounds. Anyone with information is urged to call WCBI Detective Robert Trautman at 1-800-811-8396.

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WORCESTER: Missing woman's family offers $5,000 reward
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SNOW HILL — The family of Christine Marie Sheddy, a woman missing from Pocomoke City since Nov. 13, is offering a $5,000 reward for information that will help locate her, the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office said.

The sheriff’s office and other police agencies continue to look for Sheddy who was last seen at 2911 Byrd Road in Pocomoke City.


Sheddy is 27 years old, approximately 5-foot, 3-inch tall and weighs 100 pounds.
At the time of her disappearance, she had blond shoulder length hair.

Sheddy and her two sons, ages 2 and 4, were staying with her mother Lyn Dodenhoff at her Bowers Beach home before traveling to Pocomoke City. Sheddy told her mother she was visiting a couple she met through her boyfriend, who is also the father of her children, according to Dodenhoff.

"Christine was supposed to come back here and pack her stuff to visit her sister in Philadelphia on Nov. 17," Dodenhoff said. "Nobody has heard from her and she's never left her children home alone."

Anyone with information about Sheddy is asked to contact the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation at 410-352-3476 and the WorcesterCounty Sheriff’s Office at 410- 632-1111.

The public’s help is needed to bring Sheddy home before the holidays



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Profile Information for Christine:

Missing Person: Christine Sheddy
Date of Birth: 12/22/80
Missing Since: 11/13/07
Missing City: Pocomoke
Missing State: MD
Age at time of disappearance: 26
Gender: Female
Race: White
Height: 5 ft 4 in
Weight: 100 lbs
Hair Color: DK Blonde
Hair (other): Short
Eye Color: Blue
Complexion: Fair

Characteristics: tattoo on lower back

Clothing: jeans, white shirt

Jewelry: rings

Circumstances: Christine was staying at a friend's home and when the friends left to pick up children and then returned, Christine was missing. Christine's children were found at the house alone. Christine took no possessions with her.

Agency Name: Worcester County Bureau of Investication
Agency Phone: 1-410-352-3476



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Family Offers $5,000 Reward For Info On Missing Woman

POSTED: 9:37 pm EST December 17, 2007

SNOW HILL, Md. -- Christine Marie Sheddy has been missing from Pocomoke city since last month, and her family has offered a $5,000 for information that will help find her.

Sheddy is 27 years old, about 5 feet, 3 inches tall and weighs 100 pounds. When she went missing on Nov. 13, Sheddy had blond, shoulder-length hair.

Sheddy and her two sons, ages 2 and 4, were staying with her mother Lyn Dodenhoff at her Bowers Beach home before traveling to Pocomoke City. Sheddy told her mother she was visiting a couple she met through her boyfriend, who is the father of her children.

Anyone with information about Sheddy should contact the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation or the Worcester County Sheriff's Office.
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WORCESTER: Family of missing woman offer’s reward for her return

Daily Times Staff Report

POCOMOKE — The Worcester County Sheriff’s Office announced today the family of a woman who went missing more than a month ago is offering a reward for information leading to her safe return.

Christine Sheddy, 27, of Pocomoke was last seen on Nov. 13 in the Byrd Road area, police said.

Sheddy’s family is offering a $5,000 reward for any information that would help locate her.

Sheddy is 5 feet 3 inches tall, has shoulder-length blond hair and weighs 100 lbs., police said.

Anyone with information on Sheddy’s whereabouts is asked to contact the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation at 410-352-3476 and the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office at 410-632-1111.

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Family Searches For Missing Mother

By WMDT STAFF
(FREDERICA, DE -- WMDT) 12/19/2007

Being with family during the holiday season is a privilege many of us take for granted. A Bowers Beach family is still without one of their own less than one week before Christmas.

Christine Sheddy, 26, a mother of three, was last seen on November 13 in Pocomoke, Maryland. Christine and her two young sons were visiting a couple she met through her boyfriend, also the father of her two boys.The couple called Christine's mother Lynn when she went missing.

Her mother, Lynn Dodenhoff, says, "They told me that when they got back from getting their children at daycare that she was gone and her boys were left there alone."

Lynn says that Christine would never leave her boys alone and she's always known where her daughter was. The two boys, ages two and four, are now staying with their father. Christine's seven-year-old daughter Hailey's father passed away when she was just three. She's now staying with her grandmother Lynn in Bowers Beach, Delaware.

Dodenhoff says, "She goes, 'my daddy is in heaven, if my mommy goes to heaven, I don't know what I would do.'"

Hailey Sheddy says, "Please help my mom come home before christmas."

Dodenhoff says, "If anyone can help us find her, one way or another, we just need to bring her home."

Christine's family is currently offering a $5,000 reward for information. If you have any information on her whereabouts you are asked to contact the Worcester County Bureau of Investigations at 410-352-3476.

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Missing Woman Christine Sheddy Updates
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Many people have asked about the fate of the children left behind when Christine Sheddy vanished in the Pokomoke City area Nov 13, 2007. Christine has three children; two of them, (the young boys who were with her in Maryland) are now staying with their father Levi Hall, and his mother Joyce Hall in Milford, Delaware. I was surprised to learn this detail after Friday’s Dan Gaffney Show broadcast; surprised because Joyce Hall is an employee of WGMD radio. She placed a note in my mailbox at work explaining she is Levi’s mother, and she and Levi are caring for the children. Talk about hitting close to home!

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No suspected foul play in missing woman case; FBI currently not involved

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 06:23:51 -0500

There is new information in the case of a woman gone missing from Pocomoke. Still no sign this hour of 27 year old Christine Sheddy of Milford who went missing November 13th. WGMD just spoke to Sgt. Richard Klebon of the Maryland State Police and he tells WGMD that the search continues, but the FBI is not involved.

Klebon adds that there is no suspected foul play.

About the missing persons list---Delaware State Police told WGMD earlier that as of last week, she is not on the local or national missing persons list. However Sgt. Klebon tells us differently
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Search is still on for missing woman
By Candice Evans
Staff Writer


POCOMOKE CITY -- Worcester County detectives continue to search for woman who went missing from a Pocomoke couple's home last month.

Christine Marie Sheddy's family recently offered $5,000 for information that will help find her.

"We continue to get calls and information," said Sgt. Tim Keen of the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation on Friday. "We're trying everything we can to track her down."

Sheddy, 26, was last seen Nov. 13 in the area of Byrd Road in Pocomoke City. Sheddy and her two sons, ages 2 and 4, were staying with her mother, Lynn Dodenhoff at her Bowers Beach home before traveling to Pocomoke City. Sheddy told her mother she was visiting a couple she met through her boyfriend, who is also the father of her children.

Sheddy stayed behind with her two sons when the Pocomoke couple left their home to pick up their children from school.

When they returned, Sheddy was gone and her boys were home alone, said Dodenhoff, 50.

Detective Robert Trautman of the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation, said they expanded their search to Delaware and Virginia in November.

Sheddy's two boys were staying with their father, Trautman said in earlier reports.

Even though police don't suspect any foul play, Keen said "we're looking into everything."

Sheddy is 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 100 pounds. Anyone with information on Sheddy's location or disappearance is asked to call Trautman at 410-352-3476 or 800-811-8396.


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December 21st, 2007 by Dan Gaffney
Christine Sheddy has been missing from our area since November 13, 2007.

WGMD Report:

A reward is being offered for information that leads to finding Christine Marie Sheddy, who has been missing since last month. Sheddy is 27 years old, about 5 feet, 3 inches tall and weighs 100 pounds. She went missing on Nov. 13, and at that time Sheddy had blond, shoulder-length hair. Sheddy and her two young sons were staying with her mother at her Bowers Beach home. Sheddy told her mother she was going to Pocomoke to visit a couple she met through her boyfriend, who is the father of her children. Anyone with information about Sheddy should contact the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation or the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office. Those numbers – 410-352-3476 or 410-632-1111.

The Maryland Coast Dispatch gives us this detail

Sheddy left her Bowers Beach, Del. home on Nov. 13 with her two sons, ages two and four, in tow to visit a couple in Pocomoke she had met earlier through her boyfriend. Sheddy remained behind with her two sons at the Pocomoke residence while the couple went to pick up their own children at school.
When the couple returned, Sheddy was gone and her two boys were left home alone. Sheddy was supposed to have returned to her Bowers Beach residence on Nov. 17. She was reported missing, touching off a search throughout the county and beyond. According to reports, Sheddy’s two sons are now staying with their father.

The couple is only known to me as “Tia and Junior”. Family and friends tell me Christine had only recently met “Tia and Junior”. I have also learned the couple has left the property where the disappearance happened and are living elsewhere in the area.

The girls mother Lynn Dodenhoff tells me her missing daughter will turn 27 years old Saturday. I have interviewed friends, and family and other acquaintances of Christine; no on has heard from her.


Christine’s Myspace page.

Boyfriend and children’s father Levi’s Myspace page.

Tia’s Myspace page?



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A year after Pocomoke City woman was reported missing, leads have gone cold
By Jenny Hopkinson • Staff Writer • November 20, 2008

POCOMOKE CITY -- Lynn Dodenhoff hasn't seen or heard from her daughter in 12 months.

A yearlong investigation continues into the whereabouts of Christine Sheddy, the 27-year-old Delaware woman who disappeared from a Pocomoke City farmhouse in November 2007, leaving behind her children and plenty of questions about what happened at the rural Byrd Road residence.

"I was hoping for something by now," said Dodenhoff, who has struggled to keep her daughter's name and face in the public eye.

But after a year of searching, both Dodenhoff and the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation are hoping for the best but expecting the worst.

"I just think it is going to take a hunter or a new development coming to the area before I find my daughter," she said.

Sgt. Michael McDermott of the WCBI said while officials were initially optimistic about finding Sheddy, the trail of evidence has long since gone cold.

"She still hasn't been heard from by anyone in over a year," McDermott said. "Right now, the family and law enforcement are fearing the worst and investigating it from that perceptive."

Sheddy was last seen Nov. 13, 2007, at the home of Clarence Jackson and Teresa Johnson -- whom she knew through her boyfriend, Levi Hall -- on Byrd Road, where she was staying with her two young sons.

Dodenhoff said when Sheddy called her Nov. 10, she was very upset and made plans to come home. The two women arranged for Hall to pick up Sheddy and their two children in Pocomoke City that Tuesday and bring them to Dodenhoff's home in Delaware.

On Nov. 13, before Hall's arrival, Sheddy was in the house with her sons when Jackson and Johnson left to pick up their children from school. When the couple returned, Sheddy had disappeared.

'They didn't know her'
Dodenhoff said she notified Worcester County law enforcement of her daughter's disappearance about 20 hours after she was informed. However, after officials received questionable reports about Sheddy's character from Hall's family and information found on her My Space.com profile, it delayed the search under the assumption that she had run away by choice, she said.

"I have to deal with that," she said. "I have to deal with what they say. I mean, I could go postal if I wanted to, but what's that going to prove? I've heard several things, I've heard she's a prostitute or into drugs. But they didn't even know her."

Many of the scandalous things said about Sheddy are untrue, said Dodenhoff, who described her daughter as a loving mother caught in a tumultuous relationship with Hall.

"She was great," Dodenhoff said. "She was moody but, I mean, for the most part, she was the most loving person. She would help anybody. She would make you laugh -- oh, god, she would make you laugh."

The speculation about Sheddy's personal life among law enforcement officials, Dodenhoff said, has led to a mismanaged investigation into her disappearance.

While McDermott -- who also serves as mayor of Pocomoke City -- said the WCBI is doing everything it can to find the missing woman, Stephanie Burke, editor of a local blog, the Pocomoke Tattler, said police had been uncooperative in providing her any information about Sheddy, turning down offers for help to search the area, and seem to be of the opinion that "she deserved it," Burke said.

"It just seems like there is no follow-through," Burke said. " I understand the police can't tell me everything, and they can't tell Lynn everything, but when you have a whole community willing to help ... I don't understand what their philosophy is in not putting the heat on."

During investigations, police are reluctant to give away information that could jeopardize a case's eventual prosecution in court. McDermott said officials had searched the area around Byrd Road several times after Sheddy's disappearance and continue to investigate alleged sightings and other tips they receive.

Working against time
Tom Mauriello, a professor of forensic science at the University of Maryland, said in a missing person's case, it is important to look at all aspects of the person's life to determine what may have happened.

"There are thousands of things that you would look at," Mauriello said. "There are so many different avenues."

A good investigation would include inquiries into the missing person's criminal records, mental health history, personal life and bank accounts before and after the disappearance for anything out of the ordinary. Furthermore, officials should search the places where the person was last seen for any information.

"Every minute that ticks off the clock is a loss of evidence," Mauriello said. "Evidence can be compromised out in the elements, of course it could. Could it be eliminated? Not necessarily."

Key people in the missing person's life and the last to see him or her alive should be interviewed and submitted to polygraph testing, something which Hall, Jackson and Johnson have declined to do, Dodenhoff said.

Calls for the public's help seem to have produced few leads into the case. Neither has a $5,000 reward that, until it was recently withdrawn, was offered by the family for any information, nor the posting of Sheddy's story on "America's Most Wanted."

And after a year of wondering, Dodenhoff wants answers and to be able to tell her three grandchildren -- Sheddy's two sons, who now live with Hall, and a daughter, who is in Dodenhoff's custody -- what happened to their mother.

"All I want is my daughter so I can bring her home and put her to rest," Dodenhoff said. "I couldn't care less who was involved, I couldn't care less. I just want her home. That way her children could move on and not wonder why their mother left; because she would never leave them. It will come to an end, and we will find my daughter, and justice will be served. I have full confidence that will happen."
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Year Has Passed Since Woman Vanished in Pocomoke

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11/20/2008 10:51

POCOMOKE CITY, Md. (AP)- It's been a year since a Delaware woman vanished from Pocomoke City, and investigators say the trail has gone cold.


Twenty-seven-year-old Christine Sheddy was last seen Nov. 13, 2007, at a friend's home on Byrd Road, where she had been staying with her two young sons. Her boyfriend was scheduled that day to give Sheddy and her children a lift to her mother's home in Delaware, but she was gone when he arrived at the house.

Sgt. Michael McDermott of the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation says police are doing everything they can to find Sheddy. However, her mother, Lynn Dodenhoff, believes the investigation into the disappearance was mismanaged.

McDermott says investigators continue to investigate alleged sightings and other tips they receive.
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No leads after search for missing woman
About 90 volunteers comb 67 acres in Pocomoke for clues in disappearance
By Jenny Hopkinson • Staff Writer • March 22, 2009

POCOMOKE CITY -- On the edge of the woods, not far from the road, Dawn Nichols found a bone.

The Pittsville resident called to the Flatland Search and Rescue member who was leading the group of six volunteers. She hurried over to take a look at the weather-bleached bone leaning against the bottom of a tree. The rest of the group, several yards away, fell quiet.

Had Nichols found a clue to what happened to Christine Sheddy?

About 90 volunteers gathered early Saturday morning at the Byrd Road farm where Sheddy, then 27, was last seen. Equipped with rubber boots, gloves and the hope that something may still be out there a year after the Delaware woman disappeared, friends, family and local residents searched more than 67 acres of fields, woods and swamp.

And about two hours into the search, Nichols found what turned out to be a deer bone.

From several yards away, Lynn Dodenhoff, Sheddy's mother, let out a long breath.

"Your heart just dropped, didn't it?" Dodenhoff said.

Since Sheddy disappeared Nov. 13, 2007, the property around the house has been scoured several times by area law enforcement and her family, who Dodenhoff said had unofficially "ninja-ed in" on multiple occasions. However, Saturday's search was the largest.

"I think this is wonderful," Dodenhoff said. "It's great to be a part of something with everybody, instead of us tramping through the woods by ourselves."

Organized by Dodenhoff and Pocomoke City resident Stephanie Burke, Flatland Search and Rescue led groups of volunteers from all over Delmarva, including members of the Wicomico Composite Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol and Wal-Mart employees from 10 area stores.

"I am so proud of our town," Burke said. "At least if we don't find anything today, everyone will know all that can be done has been done. And if we do find something -- it will be bittersweet -- but then Lynn can have some closure."

Sheddy, a mother of three, disappeared from the property where she had been staying with acquaintances of her boyfriend, Levi Hall. An ongoing inquiry by the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation has turned up few answers as to why Sheddy went missing. Despite theories that her daughter may have run off, Dodenhoff said she knows that Sheddy would have never left her children.

And for Patty Miller, a Delmar resident who spent her Saturday morning searching for a woman whom she had never met, the thought of her own children was enough to make her volunteer for the cause.

"I have a daughter," Miller said. "And I know if it were my daughter, I would want all the help I could get."

The search and rescue group out of Oak Hall was on the property in December 2003 doing the same thing.

After about an hour of scouring the section of woods Saturday, the group emerged back on to Byrd Road having found nothing but a strange pile of sticks, a few old beer and soda cans and the deer bone.

Back at the farmhouse, where area businesses had left donated food for the searchers and volunteers are assigned their next place to look, Margaret Keesser, Sheddy's 72-year-old grandmother, waited for any news. She didn't get any Saturday; no new information came from the search.

"It's always on our mind," Keesser said. "You feel guilty having a good time becasue you know Christine is out there somewhere."
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November 13th 2007 Christine Marie Sheddy disappeared from a farm house in a small communtity on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Police have persued this case as a "run away" mohter who abandoned two of her three children. There are numerous statements that were origianlly given to police at the begining of this case that have since been proven not true. The two people who were allegedly the last two people to ever see her alive have refused to submit to a polygraph and maintiain Christine just left. Of course, they contend Christine just left without any of her personal property or a car, she just vanished. I have a difficult time believing this as do many others. My skeptisism is based in large part to the criminal record of one of the people she was last in contact with. This person has several convictions ranging from petty theft to battery and several violent crimes.
I am sure most of you have never heard about this case due to the fact that it occured in a town very few of you even know exist. Her family is desperate for closure and would greatly appreciate any additional media attention to this case and more importantly any suggestions as to how to help gain closure for her three young children.

You can read more about this case and the search to find Christine at:
http://www.pocomoketattler.com/?p=282


If you have any information about Christine you can reach her family at findchristinesheddy@comcast.net


As I look further into the case of Missing Person Christine Sheddy, I was suprised to see the former lead investigator and current Mayor of the city where she was last seen was reported to call her a "sponge on society" while discussing the case with her mother. Was this the right avenue to persue at early stages of an investigation of a missing woman with 3 children?

I wanted to give everyone the opportunity to read some more of the details about Christine Sheddy and the struggle her family has had to endure as they have attempted to have this case investigated to the fullest. IMO it is painfully obvious that there is a huge injustice occuring to this family and her three young children. I know her family is trying every way possible to gain closure for Christine despite an appearent feeling of apathy by certain members of the main stream media and some LEA.

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SNOW HILL, Md. - A tiny bed and breakfast in Snow Hill could very well be a crime scene tonight. Human remains were found buried in the backyard this weekend. So, could it be a break in the Christine Sheddy case? Investigators said it is too soon to tell.

"It's a shock, because Snow Hill is a very quiet town," said Snow Hill resident Jim Adcock. But, that quiet was broken on Thursday.

"We did receive information that there were remains at a location in Snow Hill," said Worcester County Deputy State's Attorney Mike Farlow.
The tip led the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation to the "River House Inn" Bed and Breakfast on East Market Street. "The owners of the property were informed Friday morning that there was potential evidence on their property," said Farlow.

Human skeletal remains were found in "River House's" backyard. By Saturday morning, the dirt was back in place and detectives were leaving the scene. The State's Attorney's office said based on clothing, they do consider the body a female. But, they won't speculate on whether or not this could be the body of missing Pocomoke woman, 26 year old Christine Sheddy. Sheddy was last seen November 13, 2007 in Pocomoke City.

We spoke with Christine's mother when Christine was first reported missing; "It's been over a month now and still no Christine," Lynn Dodenhoff said in 2007. "If anyone can help us find her, one way or another, we just need to bring her home."

It is still unclear how long the remains were buried. The State's Attorney's office said after all the recent snow, it is difficult to know what kind of condition the grass was in. There was no answer at the property when we knocked.

The State's Attorney's office said a positive identification on the remains could come by the end of next week.
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