On April 12th, 1981, Sheila Sharp came home to find her mother, brother and family friend brutally murdered and her younger sister missing. 

This kicked off a mystery that remains unsolved to this day and raises more questions than answers.

References:

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“Keddie Cabin Murders: Quadruple Homicide Unsolved After 40+ Years.” The Crime Wire, 3 Jan. 2024, thecrimewire.com/true-crime/The-Keddie-Murders-Gruesome-Quadruple-Homicide-Still-Unsolved-After-40-Years.

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Kohn, Jordyn. “The Keddie Murders: Inside the Infamous Cabin 28 Killings.” The Line Up, 28 Mar. 2022, the-line-up.com/keddie-murders-cabin-28.

“Murder Case Labeled ‘Frustrating’.” Feather River Bulletin, 10 June 1981, p. 1.

“Mother, 2 Teen-agers Slain in Plumas Hamlet.” The Sacramento Bee, 13 Apr. 1981, p. 2.

“John Steven Sharp.” Find a Grave, www.findagrave.com/memorial/26527984/john-steven-sharp. Accessed 4 June 2024.

“3 Brutal Murders, missing Girl Mystifying Plumas County.” The San Francisco Examiner, 13 Apr. 1981, p. 24.

People Magazine Investigates. Season 1, episode 5, “Cabin 28 Horror in the Woods.” Investigation Discovery, 2018.

Hawkins, Erik. “The Keddie Cabin Murders.” All That’s Interesting, 1 Nov. 2021, allthatsinteresting.com/keddie-cabin-murders.