True Crime with Kimbyr - Part 2: Vanished After a Nail Appointment: A Teen’s Final Walk Through the Storm

Episode Date: November 22, 2025

In Part 2 of this chilling case on True Crime with Kimbyr, the search for 16-year-old Sharita intensifies as her family uncovers unsettling new details about her final steps that stormy Black Friday night. What did investigators learn beneath the shadow of the 36th Street Bridge? And how did a secret relationship and a dangerous route through Camden deepen the mystery? With emotion, detail, and compassion, Kimbyrleigha unravels the critical hours that reveal just how much danger Sharita was truly in—leading to a devastating discovery no family should ever face. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And sure enough, that receipt was from the exact same. store that the bags were from, Models. The item purchased was a black, large-sized jumbo t-shirt and the time listed on the receipt was 4.28 p.m. and the date was Friday, November 28th, the very same day that Shreda walked out of her parents' house to go get her nails done. There were no other visible injuries, no gunshot wounds, no stab marks, no blunt force trauma that they could see. So it was time to have the body transported to the medical examiner's office for an official identification and autopsy. But they don't even think they need a medical examiner to tell them that the body is 16-year-old Shareda Williams

because a black purse and a zebra print wallet were found on the scene. And inside was a driver's license with Shareda's name, address, and picture on it. So they heard 99% sure this is Shreda. Once at the morgue, they do take a picture of Shreda's face, and then they go to Wilma and Harry to present that to them. Can you imagine that is what you're shown? It was around 5.30 p.m., the detectives knocked on the door, and they don't even hesitate. They hand the picture of Sherita from the morgue.

They show them the identification they found. So whatever hope was left in that house fell apart. They both cry out. Harry doesn't understand how someone could kill his little girl for what? What did she do to deserve this? And Wilma is a wreck. Someone took away her sunshine, her pride and joy. It was unbearable.

Wilma's knees gave out, she is on the ground wailing. The detectives promise, we're going to find this person. We're going to find the person who did this to her. They already had their suspicions about what kind of person could have done this. And what I mean by that is they thought it was probably a male, that they were strong, physically fit, able to attack, and restrain her overpower Shreda. But it could also be someone on substances, because substances could make them go into a frenzy.

The location of the crime is why they were thinking that was. The items of clothing also told a story, a story about the struggle. The back of Shreda's jeans were muddy on the rear end, showing she was most likely scooting or being dragged across the floor as she was trying to get away. There was dirt all over her jacket, her shirt was pulled open by force, her shoes had been removed and thrown nearby, her purse was ripped off and rummaged through, and there was that makeshift ligature that the killer probably took off of his own head while over top of her. And of course, the bags shoved into her mouth to keep her from her. screaming. It was devastating. This was horrific. They also noted that her hands were tied around her back and it was her own jacket belt that was used to restrain her. While the autopsy

is being completed, the investigators are going back through all the evidence and the receipt was very important. There was a cashier's name on the receipt, Mia, and they had the address of the Modell's location plus the time that the transaction took place. So their first step was to go get CCTV footage thinking they're going to be able to see the man who bought these items or this item and this would have been a huge lead. Maybe they could take that photo to the media, put it out to the public, and someone would recognize this man, or even maybe the cashier, or possibly other people that worked there because maybe this was a regular and somebody would recognize him. Unfortunately, not only was the CCTV system not working, but remember, this was Black Friday.

That's when this transaction occurred. The cashier had to be able to. honest with detectives and she said there were so many people that came through here that day. There is no way I would be able to remember this specific customer. This was a dead end and it could have been so promising. And sometimes you have to think about the fact that these businesses, they don't keep up with their security cameras. They're supposed to be preventing stolen inventory, but sometimes in cases like this, you're relying on this camera system to work so you can possibly find a killer.

So it just blows my mind that places don't keep the their security system working and in good condition. So then they thought maybe we could track this person down by their bank account information, but the transaction was in cash. So another dead end. The medical examiner was also at a dead end, so to speak, because they were not able to determine the cause of Shareda's death. Days had gone by.

It was now December 1st, and the family and even the investigators were still waiting for cause and manner of death. Even though to us it may seem like this is obvious, it's a homicide. They have to wait for toxicology. And I know this can be very frustrating, especially for the family. But what they're probably thinking is, we know that she doesn't take substances. She doesn't drink alcohol in excess. What does that have to do with what happened to her?

But the reason why is because investigators have to rule everything out. They have to make sure that maybe she didn't pass out or OD. And then someone else came along and took advantage of her. They have to know. Now by this point, the investigators had actually spoken to the guy that Shreda was seeing, Greg. And when she was unable to speak to him that night, she called him from a nearby payphone. The one that her dad drove by and looked at because he knew that people probably used it and he knew his daughter didn't have her phone. His house was only a few yards away from the 36th Street Bridge, so now they have more information on her movements,

and this payphone was in the same vicinity, just a couple blocks away. Now remember, she did not have her phone with her phone with her. her, her minutes ran out. Of course, because they didn't have any concrete answers, the media was speculating. They were speculating about the toxicology report since it had been mentioned. Wilma had to tell reporters, she knew her daughter wasn't under that bridge by her own accord. She wasn't under their mingling and doing substances. That wasn't her. So if that's what they were insinuating, it didn't happen that way. Word of Sherita's murder spread quickly through Pensocken, and the town was shaken to its core. Fear was settling,

all over this community, especially among parents and teenagers. For many, it was the first time they realized that something like this could happen here to someone they actually knew. At Benzok in high school, extra counselors were brought in so they could help students and staff process what was happening. And that Monday morning, the school held a moment of silence in Shareda's honor. Classmates showed up they were wearing t-shirts with her photo printed across the front, and in one hallway, a sign was hung that read.

in loving memory of Rita, surrounded by pictures, many of which Sherita had taken in her photography class. Her history teacher shared that she was always on time, completely engaged, always upbeat, ready to learn, even when the rest of the room was half asleep. At the end of the school year, each teacher gave out special awards to a student who left a mark on them, and Sherita had already been chosen to receive his, the Teacher's Choice Award. But now, she would never get that chance. teacher, Mr. Shear, said, Sherita was an A-B student who had just completed a PowerPoint presentation about the tragedy on 9-11 with descriptions and special graphics that she created. He said she was the type of student you can never forget. And for Shreda's friends, the grief was unbearable.

But so was the desire to do something, so they began collecting donations and containers at local businesses to help her family cover her funeral expenses. Over 100 friends and family members had donated. Carl Miller Funeral Home and Camden would be where her services were held, but everything was on pause, since they were still waiting for that toxicology report and her death certificate signed by the medical examiner. And eventually her body was released. And by Saturday, December 6th, she was laid to rest in a white dress at the World Harvest Christian Center with a veil covering her face. And 200 people came to say their last goodbyes. Of course, there were many tears and prayers and hugs and heartbreak.

A lot of friends and classmates had shared stories about her, but others didn't even have the words. Even though her remains had been released, her cause of death had not been confirmed. So her family had to bury her without any answers, and she was finally laid to rest at Lakeview Memorial Park in New Jersey. Sherita's father, Harry, struggled. I mean, her mom did too. But as a correctional officer, he wore a badge in uniform every single. day which he found were symbols of authority and protection. But no badge could bring back his daughter. And no uniform could shield him from the pain he was feeling because he felt like he had

failed the one person who needed him the most. He said that he had made it his duty to serve and protect, but he couldn't protect his own child and that haunted him. The entire Williams family was devastated. And it wasn't until the end of January, two months after Shreda was found, that the toxicology and autopsy reports were completed. There were no traces of drugs or alcohol or any other substances in charita system. And of course this brought some closure for her family because you know now that your daughter didn't die a certain way and they weren't doing certain things because that was still lingering in their mind like what if. So now they have a sense of peace. However, when they found out the pure brutality that happened to her, it was unbelievable. The cause

of death was suffocation. The plastic bags had been so far down her airway, she slowly suffocated to death, unable to breathe. And to even think about the last moments that someone is suffering like that is sickening. They believe that the killer had restrained her hands behind her back with her own jacket strap. The belt around her jacket was tied around her hands. And then he used his own head covering that he took off and wrapped it around her neck to gain control of her. And And once she was possibly unconscious or restrained enough that she wasn't able to move or tried to get away, he violated her by pulling down her jeans just enough and ripping off her underwear, and then he stuffed the plastic bags down her throat so she was no longer breathing.

There was no DNA found inside of her body. Therefore, they did not have a lead as to who her killer was. Now, they suspected, as I had mentioned, that this was probably a male perpetrator, physically larger than her and stronger. But even though the medical examiner had not confirmed that in the beginning, the investigators on this case had already treated it like a homicide. So they were looking at clues. They were examining the crime scene.

They were requesting analysis to certain pieces of evidence, including her clothing. So they were now awaiting confirmation about whether there was any biological material on those items. Meanwhile, they decided to go to Hollywood Beauty Salon, where Sherita was getting her nails done. And luckily, their CCTV footage was available, and their cameras were working. They went frame by frame. You can see her in this still frame right here. It isn't great quality, but there she is. She's got her jeans on.

She's got a black belt. It was the type with little metal ringlets around it. She's got on her black blouse with a collar, and she's holding her black jacket in her arms as she's walking out of the salon. When she walked out that door, they were able to determine that she was walking in the direction of the 36th Street Bridge towards Greg's house.

He lived two blocks away. So once she was on the other side, on the other side and she arrived, she would have been there around 6.30. After his mom told her he wasn't available, that's when she walked to the nearby payphone, where she called him for the next 10 to 15 minutes back to back. About every three minutes, she would try his cell phone again and again until he finally picked up. She called him 16 times. And you can understand in picture a teenager. She's upset. She came all that way. It had been raining. It's cold. She's all alone, she probably thought they were going to hang out. Her and Greg had a very short conversation.

He said that he needed to turn off his phone so that he could get some rest. And that was the last time he talked to her. So this puts her in that area around 7 p.m. They pull up Greg's phone records and they kind of have a theory for a moment because they have to go through everything, right? He said that that was the last thing he did. He turned his phone off and he went to bed, but they noticed he'd been speaking to someone else that night. They found out what he was. He found out the number was and it was another female. So when he hung up with Shareda, he was calling someone else. So now they're going with this whole love triangle theory. It was explored, but I'm just going to let you know we're not going to go there. Nothing ever came of it. They even started looking at

Shareda's friends and that was because of the fact that Ashley mentioned the bridge. Remember, she was like, oh, Shareda was really scared going over that bridge. Well, that was only because She knew that her boyfriend Greg lived over there. It wasn't because she knew any kind of information that led to where her murder occurred. But they wanted to make sure her friends were not involved in any way. They were all shocked that investigators would even think that they had something to do with their friend's murder. But everyone had to be rolled out and everything had to be explored. Because right now, they didn't have any physical leads connecting anyone to this crime.

They looked into Greg, they looked into Greg's mother, they looked into the other girls that Greg had been talking to, they went down every angle possible to try to find out if someone wanted to harm her. Because maybe they were mad at her, maybe they were jealous. But none of that added up to the violation aspect of this case. However, somebody could have staged it to look like a violation. Because remember, there wasn't any semen found inside of her body. So these were just theories and assumptions that they had to go on. It was a waiting game. And by the next year, months later, there were still no answers. After Shareda's death, neither Wilma nor Harry returned to work. Harry was overwhelmed with grief, he was under doctor's care, and they'd even tried counseling

because there were wounds that they felt would not heal on their own. On certain days, Harry found himself at a non-profit, where he was helping, and it was called Stop and Drop Your Gun. They talked to kids the way that he wished somebody would have talked to the person who did this to his daughter. It was a program that helped young people give up weapons before it was too late. And of course, his surviving children gave Harry a purpose. He had to protect his 19-year-old daughter, Sabrina, especially when you don't know if your family is being targeted and if someone was going to hurt another one of your children. They kept Shareda's room exactly as it was when she disappeared. She had a necklace that had an S, and it came back and was given to

Wilma after she was taken to the morgue. She said she never took it off. Everything else, her jacket, her jeans, the pieces that might hold answers, were in custody with the people who had to look at them clinically to solve this case. Just months after Shreda's murder in June of 2004, her family and hundreds of supporters gathered

on the 36th Street Bridge, and they marched several blocks in her honor, holding banners, wearing shirts with Shareda's face and chanting no justice, no peace, we want justice. Sherita's uncle George Thomas spoke during the rally. He told the crowd he felt detectives were not doing everything they could to find Shareda's killer.

But they were waiting on science. That's what they were doing. They were working hard, but they only had so much they could go on. And finally, a stain that was swabbed on one of Sharedes' pant legs of her genes did yield a full male DNA profile. And that was uploaded to Kodas, the National DNA Database. And detectives hoped that it would have a hit on a known offender. However, the results came back, the same way that all the other leads did.

No match. The offender was not in the registry. It was either a first-time offender or he hadn't been caught yet for other crimes. That was the worst kind of news because you're like, wow, this is going to be such a breakthrough. We're now going to know who did this to her. That didn't happen. However, they did know that an attack happened. Seaman was on her genes.

This is a violation. It's a male, but they just don't know who. Now, it was tested against the guy she'd been seeing, other male individuals in her circle, but there were no matches. Now, in the fall of 2004, Wilma Williams appeared on the Montel Williams show alongside a psychic named Sylvia Brown. It was national spotlight, but many viewers were left having mixed feelings about Shareda's mom being in contact with a psychic.

For Wilma, all this was was another attempt to bring Shareda's name into the public eye, Another way to keep pressure on detectives. But I do understand, because we have mentioned and talked about psychics on this channel. And there usually are mixed feelings about that. But when you are desperate, sometimes I think families are like, what's the worst thing that can happen?

Sure, maybe I don't believe in psychics. But what if they somehow give them a lead? I think I would do it. If I was a desperate parent, I don't really see the harm in it, but I understand how it can look from the outside. When what would have been, Shereida's 17th birthday arrived,

They went to her grave and they released white balloons into the sky. And on the first anniversary of her murder, candles lined the sidewalk and the bridge where she was found. Sixty people stood there together and they said her name out loud because saying it felt like a small form of justice. And at home every Monday, Harry called the detectives, a supervisor, anyone related to the case. He was polite until polite wasn't working anymore and then he was persistent in a way that would get him a

response. He told them, I'm not going to let you forget about her. It was like a broken record. And another year passed. It was now 2005. And in the spring, police increased the reward for information to $5,000, hoping it that it might bring someone forward, but no one came. Back at home, the Williams family created a memorial shrine in the center of their dining room. It held mementos, candles, and framed photos of Shreda. For years, this case went silent. The trail had gone completely cold. But behind the scenes, detectives were never really giving up on the case, and neither was her family.

Finally, in 2007, four years after Shreda's murder, there was a hit in Kodas on the DNA from her genes. They now had a name. A 21-year-old man who had been arrested on drug charges out in Philadelphia, his name, Warren Dixon. Of course, when Sharedes' family got the news, this name did not ring. did not ring a bell.

So Wilma decided to go call all of her friends and asked, do you know this guy? It turned out, Ashley Mendez started to cry over the phone. Wilma was like, what's going on? She's like, oh my god, we went to high school with him. He sat in between Sharita and I in our English class. Wow. And now Ashley also added that he was a weirdo, that he gave off a really bad vibe and that they were not friends with him.

He was not in their friend group and they did not hang out. The investigators find out that he's on probation, and then every week he has to meet with his probation officer right next door to the police station. So what do they do? They decide on one of those meetings. They're going to come in. They're going to pull him aside, and they're going to ask him questions about Shareda's case. And that's exactly what they did. They first asked him if he knows her, and he's completely calm, cooperative, and he admits, yes, I went to high school with Shereida. They asked him if he knew what happened to her, and he said, I found out that she was murdered, and I remember it being in the news at the time. The thing about this man is that they're

trying to figure out if he possibly is under the influence of something because they think that he has some sort of mental health condition that he's not able to stay on track. He keeps getting into these tangents about things that don't even make sense, and they're trying to bring things back and keep him talking about Sherita, but he doesn't even seem interested or concerned about her case. So that was very frustrating. And he was there for hours without giving them any concrete information. He was starting to get frustrated because they were asking him if he was ever in contact with her, you know, especially on the night that she went missing. And he's like, how am I supposed to know? That was years ago. We were in class together. I could have seen her

in class. I could have bumped into her after school. That was a holiday. I don't know. I could have been in some random hangout with her or some places or shopping together. Now, he was getting upset because he can see they're trying to connect him to something where he's saying it can be explained away. We went to the same high school. But this was before they told him that they had his actual seminal fluid on her pant lake, on her jeans, because that changed everything. This was not about casually bumping into someone at the mall. And that's when the interview started to change. He becomes increasingly angry.

He's like, well, I know I didn't kill her. And then he starts to provide information that could possibly explain away items that were found at the actual crime scene, starting with the head cover. He said something to the effect of, yeah, you know, I might have ran into her that night. You know, I think she asked to borrow my do-rack. Well, that did not make sense to them. Number one, her family had already identified that that was not her item, and she wouldn't wear an item like that. Especially, this was found around her neck.

But the way he was trying to explain it away, is like, you know, if my hair was in there or something, you know, that would be mine, but I let her borrow it. So it doesn't mean I did anything to her. I know what you're probably thinking, and that's what the detectives were thinking as well. Then they brought up records of where his last address was. He was staying with his father off 32nd Street. This was only a few blocks away from the bridge, the same street that the payphone was on. I'm going to show it to you on a map, and just a block away from where Sharita's boyfriend Greg lived.

So this puts this man in the vicinity of where Sharita would have been walking, possibly on a number of nights, when she was walking across that bridge and going over to Greg's house. He probably saw them together. And then when confronted with this, he explained away why his DNA could have been found on her pant leg. Are you ready? He tells them a story that they'd been seeing each other. And they had a consensual contact that night. But again, this doesn't make sense because her underwear were stretched out.

They were ripped off of her body. This didn't seem like something that she would have agreed to. And her friends even said, There's no way. Absolutely not. Plus, school records showed right after Thanksgiving break when Sherita's body had been found.

Warren Dixon actually withdrew from school and he never came back and he moved away from the area. Is that a coincidence? They didn't think so. They were pressing and pressing him. And then he started saying things that were very concerning. He started to ask them questions like, okay, if I did somehow kill her,

am I responsible if it was a accident will I still be in trouble? Would that still be a murder charge? Accident? Now I think you remember how Sherida was killed. How would that ever be considered an accident? Now they could not get a confession from this man, but they felt like they could gather enough evidence and put together enough probable cause to get a warrant for his arrest. And they were working on that. But they did have to release him for the time being. It took more time than you would expect. But finally, on February 2nd of 2009, the then 23-year-old was charged with SA and the murder of Shareda Williams. He eventually turned himself in the next night to the police station. This was a

form of closure. It's not going to bring relief or peace in any way because there is still so much to come. It's not going to bring Shariah back. Even her best friend Veronica said it lifted a huge weight off of everyone's shoulders, and it's been really difficult to know that he had been out there all that time. It did feel like they were finally able to let Sherita rest in peace. And she even added that she thought about her all the time. And when she gave birth to her first child in November, she actually wore a pair of socks that Shurita had gifted to her and a button with Shurita's picture on it so that she could be there for a big milestone like that in her life.

Warren Dixon's history was troubling. He had been arrested on assault and weapons charges in 2003. and again on drug charges in 2005, and now he was in jail and his bill was set at $750,000. When he appeared in court, Sherita's family saw him face to face for the very first time, and they described him as defiant. He was completely uncooperative to the point where he wouldn't even stand when the judge ordered him to. So a bailiff had to actually take their hands underneath his armpits and pull this man into a standing position. Time passed as they awaited a trial, But in March of 2011, Warren Dixon, who was now 25 years old, showed up in court and pleaded

guilty to aggravated manslaughter and attempted aggravated sexual assault in the death of Shreda Williams. It had been more than seven years since her murder. And all he did was simply answer yes or no to most of these questions as part of his confession except for when they asked how he restrained her. He said by putting my hands around her arms and neck. He said, yes, he understood that she died from that and that his actions resulted in her death. Later, he explained what really happened the night, the night that Shareda was murdered.

He said he saw her walking towards the 36th Street Bridge on her way home. He came up behind her and attacked her by forcing her under the bridge and tried to force her into sexual acts. But she resisted, which led Warren to put his hands around her neck and choke her. He never went into detail about all the horrific and gruesome. things that he had done to her, only that he ended her life. But we know it can be inferred from the evidence that she was bound, restrained, forced into an act by him pulling down her pants and ripping off her underwear, then he pulled the jeans back up without even bothering to button them or putting her belt on. Warren Dixon was sentenced to 20 years in prison with eligibility for parole

after serving only 85% of his sentence. He waived his right to an appeal, and after the hearing, he was dragged from this courtroom. For those closest to Shreda, this sentence was a bitter pill to swallow. 20 years felt like nothing compared to what had been taken from them. Ariel, when his Shreda's best friend said, he gets a second chance, and Shreda doesn't.

He gets to have a life after he gets out, but she doesn't. There should not be a second chance when you have taken someone else's life. life. Now, I'm sure a lot of people agree. And if Warren Dixon serves the minimum, he is eligible for parole next year in 2026. Sherita's father, Harry said he's already made it clear. He plans to be at that hearing. He will fight to ensure that this man remains behind bars for as long as possible, for the rest of his life. If he has anything to say about it, Harry will be there. And it's beyond me why a plea deal would ever be accepted where they don't have to go into detail,

They don't get a life sentence. But the way I see it is they probably were going to have a hard time convincing a jury with the lack of evidence. You know, they don't have eyewitnesses, they don't have CCTV footage, no digital evidence, no data that put him in a certain place. Of course, yes, his DNA. But even that, it can be explained away. And if you can't get a conviction, then you have to take a deal. I know there will be people watching that will blame Shareda. And I don't like that.

She was 16. I know that we can sit here and say, well, why did she lie? Why did she tell her parents she was going to friends' houses all the time when she was going to a boy's house? Why was she walking alone? Why was she seeing a guy? We can just keep saying why, why, why? But that is not what we should be questioning. We should be asking why this monster did what he did.

It's his actions that led to her murder. Sherita was just being a teenager. She was excited. She just got her nails done. she was expecting to hang out with her boyfriend. She was not expecting nor doing anything that risky by simply walking down the street in the evening. It wasn't even in the middle of the night,

and even if it was, it doesn't excuse the acts of a deranged person, a person who takes what they want and discards a human being. Nothing will justify that. And even her family says they share her story because they hope that other young women will travel in groups. If you go together, leave together and notice your surroundings Her father said that Sharita's death is making people aware of what can happen to you. Don't think that it can't.

Her loved ones believe that she is saving lives through bringing awareness to her story. That even in death, Sherita is serving the purpose that she once dreamed of. She was meant to do big things and she is. So take that from this case, if anything. And I want to say that I am so sorry to Sherita's family and loved ones. She was a beautiful, loving person with so much ahead of her in life. And I thank you all for being here for her story. I will see you in my fairy next.

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