Pensacola, Florida – Sherri Malarik hosted a family overnight on September 21, 2001, and the evening was full with laughter and happiness. However, none could have predicted that the event would end tragically. The Navy air traffic controller was having a busy evening with video games, pizza, and a big group of kids, which included her sister’s and her own blended family of five. But that evening took a terrible turn when Sherri left the house and never came back. Her lifeless body was found the following morning in a parking lot not far from Pensacola, Florida, inside the family’s Dodge minivan. It had been a .25-caliber gun that had wounded her twice.