Crews were out excavating a small plot near a home in South Buffalo on Tuesday afternoon.
Members of Cherrie’s Angels told us that the search was in reference to the 40-year-old case.
The group was not sure if any clues were located.
On Friday, February 22, 1985, in Winfield Township, Pennsylvania, 8-year-old Cherrie Mahan looked forward to attending her friend Jennifer’s 10th birthday party after school. The final bell rang for her third-grade class, and Cherrie headed to her school bus to get home and get ready for the party. At about 4:10 pm, Cherrie and three of her classmates get off the bus at their regular stop on Cornplanter Road, just around the corner from Cherrie’s home. All her friends make it home, but not Cherrie.
Earlier this year, a private investigator from Iowa put up a $100,000 reward for information that leads to her discovery.
“I don’t know if surprised is the best word but I was very happy,” Bailey Gizienski told Channel 11. She is a friend of Cherrie Mahan’s mother Janice McKinney and runs a group dedicated to finding Cherrie.
“She [Janice] did say to me this morning, ‘my heart is beating so fast. Cherrie wants to come home,’” she said.
Steve Ridge is a private investigator working on the Cherrie Mahan case.
“I knew a dig was imminent. I was not surprised but in terms of the specific location, I did not have that location pinpointed. I definitely had areas on both sides of the Allegheny right in that area,” he said.
It’s not clear what investigators uncovered in the dig, if anything. Gizienski says they told Cherrie’s mother that they plan to return...
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