IL IL - Terri Earhart, 23, Champaign, 10 May 1981

Family Trees created on Ancestry.com have her maiden name as Thomas.
Date of birth 01 Apr 1958.
Born in Decatur, Illinois.
Alternate first name spelling in some records is Terrie with an e on the end.
She married 22 Dec 1978 in Wichita, Texas.
Her husband's last name is spelled Ehrhart in the Texas marriage record.

Here's her marriage record on Familysearch: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VYQP-32B

I was unable to find a yearbook photo but maybe this info will help someone else find it. Thomas is a very common last name and I don't know for certain where she went to high school.

More info from Newspapers.com

December 31, 1985
Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois

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...tapping of a Decatur home was filed. It was quickly impounded by court order, and police would not answer a reporter's inquiries about the case. It was known that local police, Champaign authorities and the Illinois Department of Law Enforcement were involved in the case. Ehrhart's remains have not been found, a fact that has hampered the investigation and possible prosecution of the case, Meyers said. "There has been a lot of investigation, and the case is not closed yet," he said. Meyers said Ehrhart was a resident of Decatur and last heard from in Decatur on May 10, 1981. She left the city and moved to another state for a while. He would not comment about a possible suspect or suspects, a motive or where the offense is believed to have occurred. ; He said Ehrhart was reported missing on Nov. 12, 1981, by her mother, Billie Thomas, who he identified as a resident of Moultrie... Decatur police confirmed on Monday that a 23-year-old woman who disappeared from Decatur in May 1981 is believed to be the victim of a homicide. Terrie Ehrhart was reported missing to the department in November 1981, and an extensive investigation has led police to conclude she was murdered, according to Lt. Joseph M. Meyers. When Decatur police learned of the discovery on Sunday of a skull by two hunters in DeWitt County, it prompted them to consider various reports of missing persons and homicides. Before it was determined the skull was likely that of an Indian, Ehrhart's name surfaced at police headquarters. Meyers agreed to release a few details about the investigation because he said the woman's death is now officially considered a homicide. In the months after Ehrhart's disappearance, a Macon County Circuit Court petition requesting the wire...

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/88322326/

From this article and her marriage record, it seems that "Terrie Ehrhart" is the correct spelling of her name.

Possible this UID?
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/220ufil.html

Age range is ok and Terry not is in the exclusions!

Romulus said:

Possible this UID?
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/220ufil.html

Age range is ok and Terry not is in the exclusions!

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I think the date might be a discrepancy here. Terri Earhart went missing in 1981. The Jane Doe was found in 1995. The postmortem interval is 11 months.

Her father passed away in 2003. She is mentioned as preceding him in death.

http://www.kentuckynewera.com/article_059446ae-e1b5-532f-aff7-d7af3a6ff689.html




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There was a photo of her posted in a Facebook group. No source was sited and I’m trying to figure out where it came from and if it’s able to be posted here. I did a little more searching...

31 Dec 1985, Page 5 - Herald and Review at Newspapers.com

MadMcGoo said:

There was a photo of her posted in a Facebook group. No source was sited and I’m trying to figure out where it came from and if it’s able to be posted here. I did a little more searching...

31 Dec 1985, Page 5 - Herald and Review at Newspapers.com
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This is a picture of Terri(e). You can see her tattoo. According to an admin of a Jane and John Doe FB site her daughter send it to them.

Bit of hope said:

This is a picture of Terri(e). You can see her tattoo. According to an admin of a Jane and John Doe FB site her daughter send it to them.

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