Disappearance of Cherrie Mahan, an eight-year-old American girl who disappeared on February 22, 1985, started when Mahan was last seen exiting the school bus she rode with three friends at around 5:10 p.m.
She alighted this bus with three friends at approximately 4:10 p.m. before her friends entered a car driven by the mother of one of the girls, Debbie Burk, who had followed the school bus in her own car. 
