Apr 20, 2026 · 38 min · 33 segments
20-year-old Kristy Ray is living at home and working her way through college until one day she is shockingly abducted. Local law enforcement will need the help of the FBI and community members to find…
Pretty much everybody knows everybody.
It's a very tight-knit community.
You, um, go to the grocery store, and you're gonna see lots of people that you know.
Generations after generations stay in the area.
20-year-old Christie Ray has spent most of her life in Tippah County, living with parents Mary and Tommy.
[footsteps crunching] Christie was full of life.
She wanted to do so much, and we did things together.
Shopping was her big thing when she got older, and so we shopped a lot together.
Oh, wait.
Here.
Oh.
[laughs]
This is how people are wearing their scarves these days.
Christie was a sophomore at community college.
She was just one of those people who you knew was gonna be very successful in life.
She had a lot of ambition.
Thanks.
Who's gonna be doing this kind of stuff for me when you're living so far away?
Mom, I'm not that far away.
And you'll come and visit, right?
Of course.
I told her, "You don't have to grow up.
Y- you know, if you're 40 years old and still going to school, we're gonna be behind you [laughs] whatever you wanna do." But she wanted to travel.
She wanted to go places.
Pretty much everybody knows everybody.
It's a very tight-knit community.
You, um, go to the grocery store, and you're gonna see lots of people that you know.
Generations after generations stay in the area.
20-year-old Christie Ray has spent most of her life in Tippah County, living with parents Mary and Tommy.
[footsteps crunching] Christie was full of life.
She wanted to do so much, and we did things together.
Shopping was her big thing when she got older, and so we shopped a lot together.
Oh, wait.
Here.
Oh.
[laughs]
This is how people are wearing their scarves these days.
Christie was a sophomore at community college.
She was just one of those people who you knew was gonna be very successful in life.
She had a lot of ambition.
Thanks.
Who's gonna be doing this kind of stuff for me when you're living so far away?
Mom, I'm not that far away.
And you'll come and visit, right?
Of course.
I told her, "You don't have to grow up.
Y- you know, if you're 40 years old and still going to school, we're gonna be behind you [laughs] whatever you wanna do." But she wanted to travel.
She wanted to go places.
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