After Bailey Gizienski clocks out from her 9-to-5 job at a medical marijuana dispensary, she pulls a 5-to-9 shift at her kitchen table, looking for her long-lost relative.

She is one of “Cherrie’s Angels,” four women who sift through crime tips, answer emails and make dozens of phone calls in hopes they’ll crack one of the state’s oldest unsolved criminal cases — the disappearance of 8-year-old Cherrie Mahan 40 years ago from a school bus stop in Butler County.

The case is so old that Cherrie was the first child featured in “Have you seen me?” postcards sent out by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and ADVO direct mail company several months after her abduction.

Fueled by caffeine and cinnamon sugar pretzels, Gizienski and other distant relatives of Cherrie’s mother,

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