Disappearance of Sarm Heslop
Sarm Heslop was a native of Southampton, England. The port city saw many people come and go so perhaps it was natural that Sarm pivoted from her initial career in aviation as a flight attendant to living and working on a luxury boat in St. John’s US Virgin Islands.
That pivot would result in her disappearance. On the night of March 7, 2021, Sarm Heslop was 41 years old, living on a boat with a man she had known for seven months. She was two hundred feet from the St. John shoreline. By all accounts she was healthy. She was an experienced swimmer. And she was level-headed, according to family and friends.
She hasn’t been seen since that night.
Photo Credits: Jam Press, The Sun UK, findsarm.com, BBC, Prey Tell Podcast Team
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