The last time Sherry Rice saw her mother was more than a year ago, when she was riding into the sunset with a man she met online.
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A month after her mother left, her children reported her missing when no one answered her cell phone, they said.
They also hired a private investigator, Lyle Sharman, who was able to track down the man. Rice helped him come up with a list of questions only her mother would know the answers to.
On the phone, Sharman posed the questions, which ranged from Whats the name of the dog that died from smoke in a trailer? to What was the color of the Dodge Charger you drove?
The last was a trick question, Sharman said, as Nancy never drove a Dodge Charger. But the caller replied, "bluish-green."
