Keith Mann Jr. /// Part 1 /// 576 | Forensic Files

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foreign [Music] [Music] we all are Someone's Child many of us have children of Our Own
we raise our children and do the very best that we can to help them to grow up to be good and
kind A wise man once told me that you cannot be too hard on your children that you also cannot be their best
friend and it's a parent's Duty to raise their children up to be good citizens and to do so your role as a parent
fall somewhere right in the middle of disciplinarian and best friend this week's subject is a missing
person's case here our missing person was really just starting to come of age in this young
man's life was really just starting to take shape no longer was he a boy he was becoming a man
with dreams goals and responsibilities all of his own he was becoming a good contributing
member of society he was a good citizen just as his parents had raised him to be
Gregory Keith Mann Jr was 20 years old when he went missing recently he had moved into his own
apartment not terribly far from his parents house he was striking out on his own with a
new job that could turn into a career and a fiance who had just finished College
he went by his middle name Keith Gregory Mann was his father's name and so to friends family and colleagues
he was Keith but with all of these new beginnings in Keith's life there was so much more going on and so
many more moving pieces I'm sure Keith was looking forward to things settling down soon
and settling into his adult life and the life that he was building and the love that he and his fiancee
would build together who is to say what would have come of any of this Keith's relationship or his new job
we don't know and very sadly I say we will never know Keith disappeared sometime between the
hours of midnight and 6 A.M a May 11 1997. this after returning to his apartment in
Wichita Falls Texas he's never been heard from again the Wichita Falls Times Record News
covered the case extensively over the years newspaper coverage in a case that no one
could have anticipated would go unsolved and unresolved for 25 years now I'll read you portions of one of the
very first news articles in Key's case the headline was simple and to the point and read police searching for Wichita
Falls man the article reads police are searching for a 20 year old man was last seen Saturday night at the
fountain Gate Apartments Barnett Road friends dropped Keith Mann Jr off in the parking lot of the apartment complex
around midnight it's not been seen since police Lieutenant Laura Arnold said authorities have no evidence of
Foul Play when he was last seen Keith was wearing an ivory colored shirt blue jeans and a
beige baseball hat Keith was driving a 1994 red Mustang with dealer tags days prior to his
disappearance the vehicle was found early Sunday morning in a parking lot next to his
parents house anyone with information should contact the Criminal investigation's Division of
the Wichita Falls Police Department now notice in that report it is stated that the authorities have no evidence of
Foul Play that does not mean that Foul Play was not suspected as with most cases theories change
sometimes overnight sometimes no evidence can become evidence of a different kind just with
the passing of time the question of Foul Play In this case whether or not it should be suspected
changed rather quickly and make no mistake about it today as the case stands Foul Play is
very much suspected because if it were not for someone or what seems more probable someone's out
there well then Keith would still be here with us now still working on those dreams goals and
responsibilities today probably fulfilling some of them over the years and creating new ones as he
grew while it saddens me to report that we are coming up on 25 years now the Keith
has been missing I am hopeful that for Keith's family and his real true friends that soon we may have some answers
you see this is not a Cold Case sure it's been a little chilly over the years but not cold and never frigid
Wichita Falls Police Department have worked the case hard and intelligently over the years
detectives have managed to stir up several good leads every so often keep the case alive
this case is very active and with the 25-year anniversary of the day that this young man went missing
approaching us on the calendar the case is heating up once again with renewed interest from everyone
including law enforcement and the media we here at True Crime garage are very happy to be a part of that renewed
interest and awareness in Keith's case we sincerely hope and pray that us talking about this case here in the
garage this week well in some way big or small help to get much needed and deserved answers
for a grieving family there are many in the Wichita Falls Community they have never forgotten about Keith
Mann Jr including the police department the current detective working the case told us guys let me be clear this is a
very open and active police investigation I am also happy to report that the reward for information in this case is
increasing with the 25-year anniversary suspects and Witnesses are being interviewed again
leads are being chased and the tips that are sure to come pouring in will be followed up on
personally I firmly believe and have reason to believe that not only does more than one person know what happened
to Keith it's likely more than one person played a role in Keith's disappearance
I am looking forward to what new information May Come and I believe one day murder charges
will be issued in this case this week we are featuring The unsolved case of Keith Mann Jr who has been
missing from Wichita Falls Texas since May of 1997. this is True Crime garage [Music]
thank you this week we find ourselves once again in the great state of Texas for another
True Crime Story just won a missing person's case now 25 years old out of Wichita Falls with the
population of right of around 100 000 people Wichita Falls is located in the northern portion of Texas not far from
the state line in fact Wichita Falls is only about 15 minutes south of the Oklahoma Texas border
our story takes place back in 1997. now before we go through the details leading
up to Keith's disappearance we need to go through some background information in this case Keith Mann Jr was born on
February 19 1977. so at the time of his disappearance he was just 20 years old as a little kid Keith was a Sweet Child
and his love of sports came at a young age he loved Sports of any kind he also fell in love with motorcycles when he
was a little older Keith's mother and father did not live together and Keith lived with his mother
when he was little when he would go visit his dad they had little mini bikes and the two of them would spend the day
riding around town for hours the summer before ninth grade he decided to live with his dad and stepmom and go
to high school some of this decision for Keith wanting to live with his father is
obviously to become closer with his dad and his stepmom but some of this decision came about because of the
baseball program at the high school where his father lived Keith loved baseball and was not ready to give up on
baseball he did not want for high school to be the last of his baseball playing days and the high school near his
father's home had a good baseball program good enough that some of the kids that played on that team would go
on to play at the Collegiate level so Keith made the difficult decision to change schools at an age when many have
no desire to do so he was now living in Wichita Falls Texas with his father and stepmother he
attended Ryder High School where he got good grades and excelled on the ball field Keith played baseball loved Sports
and was very active in school but it seems like baseball was his primary focus Keith was good enough at baseball that
he earned a scholarship when he graduated from Ryder High School back in 1995 Keith went on to attend North
Central Texas Junior College on that scholarship this college is about an hour and a half away from Wichita Falls
yes North Central Junior College is located in Gainesville Texas Now Keith went to that college for one year where
he was very well liked and seemed to have no known enemies there he played baseball but playing time was scarce and
Keith started to seek out another change in his life but although the baseball wasn't panning
out for him in Gainesville going off to college was not a total loss in fact far
from it because while he was there at North Central Keith met Carrie kitchens and the two fell for each other their
relationship would blossom into something stronger Carrie was there to play volleyball and Keith to play
baseball so they had Sports in common as well as some mutual friends this would blossom into a boyfriend girlfriend
relationship and while the boyfriend girlfriend relationship would continue Keith's baseball days were coming to an
end after a year of college Keith decided to move back to Wichita Falls he moved in with his parents dad and
stepmom and lived with them for about four months or so Keith's story is very similar to most college students that go
away they live at College it's not working out he's coming back home to be with his family yes this will put him
back in Wichita files which once there he's going to live with his parents from roughly January till April so this is
all still in 1997. during that time period Keith would pick up a new job one that he liked and surprisingly he fit
right into the position that one might not think would appeal to someone with Keith's personality so we need to give
you a little background on his personality and this is as it's been described to us
Keith's personality was that he was a nice young man well liked and smart however everyone says that he was shy
and not very outgoing some of his family say Keith may have had some bouts with anxiety so when I hear those sorts of
things it's really a surprise to me to hear that Keith took a job as a salesperson at a car dealership
usually these are more outgoing personality types the happy-go-lucky talking types and Keith as said was a
little more reserved and shy as his parents said according to his family Keith really liked the job he started
this job working as a salesperson at a dealership called Ron Roberts Ford which was located in Wichita Falls Keith
started working there approximately eight weeks before he vanished and as said Keith liked the job he was fitting
in and more importantly he was selling cars so he had some success three weeks after he started working at
Ron Roberts Ford and after showing some success and good work ethic Keith was eligible for the dealership's demo
program this is a kind of commonplace practice where the dealership will allow employees to sign out vehicles and drive
them after work hours well even though he was shy I mean the nice thing about working on a car dealership is the
customers are coming to you as long as you know what you're talking about you got a reason to talk
in April of 97 Keith made another change this when he moved into an apartment of
his own located only about a mile away from his parents place and as we said an apartment of his own
but he would not be living there for very long all by himself because Keith and Carrie
they've recently gotten engaged and after she was going to finish with school she was going to move in with Keith
in fact she was scheduled to move in on May 11th this just hours after Keith went missing yeah so even though
baseball didn't work out or college didn't work out he's back at home he finds a job he has an apartment he's
getting engaged his girlfriend's going to move in with him he's he's starting his life I mean he's on the upswing yes
and let's break down this timeline a little further in a recap if you will Keith starts the new job at the
dealership in early to mid-march of 1997 then Keith moved into his apartment at the fountain gate apartment complex he
moved into the apartment in April this apartment again is only about a mile away from his parents home so he is
there at the apartment starting in April and remember he and Carrie recently engaged Carrie's going to be moving in
with him on May 11th the same day that he went missing Keith went missing sometime between the hours of midnight
after being dropped off by his friend ends in 6 a.m the next morning when the vehicle that Keith was driving was found
abandoned Carrie his girlfriend and fiance was planning on arriving at the apartment on the afternoon of the 11th
that same day and since she was finished with college and the two were engaged she was going to be staying at the
apartment moving in and living there starting on that day so we have some pretty good background information
everything leading up to the time frame that is very important here and this is the last few days before Keith vanished
we should talk about Foul Play though Captain because we brought it up in the trailer and we've touched on it a little
bit and I want to get into this before we get into the more detailed timeline of the days leading up to his
disappearance because I don't want there to be a foul play versus no foul play debate
going forward so the earliest news article says police have found no evidence of Foul Play this is just the
article that comes out a couple days after he's missing however if you were to ask his family and we did
they will tell you that Keith didn't just up and walk away from his life and his family they did say that with Keith
and the fiance moving in together at the same weekend that he went missing that certainly was an early suspicion of
theirs right it sounds like to me Captain the early suspicion of pretty much everyone including law enforcement
was that maybe he had gotten cold feet and decided that he didn't want to get married or didn't want to live together
and so that he would just kind of go away for a little bit giving her the hint that maybe this isn't going to work
out or hey I've had a change of mind but as the days went on they very quickly his family and law
enforcement changed their suspicions of that to actually we think that there was Foul
Play involved because Keith is not here anymore and so one thing we should give a little background on is that remember
we said Keith and his Keith's mother and father didn't live together Keith's father remarried when he was
only two years old his mother lives all the way in New Mexico and when Keith was a little boy he would
live with his mom and visit his father his father lived in New Mexico when he was a little boy with his new stepmother
at some point dad and stepmom moved to Wichita Falls Texas we know that this is before Keith went off to high school
because he gets his eye on that high school with the good baseball program in Dad's neighborhood all the way in
Wichita Falls Texas and decides hey I'm going to move out there and live with Dad and my stepmom Deborah so the
thought here Captain was that maybe he gets cold feet about the fiance moving in decides maybe he doesn't want to be
engaged anymore what have you and maybe he ran off to mom's house in New Mexico you know anybody that has parents that
live separate homes and especially this far away from one another you kind of have a safe haven to retreat to should
things not be going your way right so very quickly what they're able to do is they're able to kind of to squash those
suspicions by first contacting his mother I've not seen him I've not heard from him he's not staying with me as the
response they get and when they don't have any confirmation of Keith being anywhere
else other than where he should be at that apartment and then going off to his job just like he would on any other
Ordinary Day their suspicions from well no foul play to Foul Play shift rather quickly like
you said by not being there maybe it scares off your fiance but not showing up to work
now you could potentially lose your job which then would cause you to lose your apartment as well so you're basically
everything that you've just built in this last year you're going to be wiping the Slate clean and starting all over
the thing here too Captain is we have that statement by police early on that says we have no evidence of Foul Play
the scary thing is when your suspicion changes of well he there must have been Foul Play because he's not with us he's
disappeared somebody must be responsible for whatever happened to him well the scary part is then you start going okay
we have no evidence of Foul Play because either a someone did a really good job of
covering up what they had done or be we don't know where and when the foul play occurred
so we don't know where to look for the evidence of Foul Play Let's dive into the timeline and events that led to The
Disappearance right so we've covered the months and weeks leading up to The Disappearance but now we're going to go
into the actual days leading up to it and of course the major time frame that we are going to be concerned with and
Keith's disappearance is the window that we have referenced but will once again emphasize here
that is starting at approximately 11 45 p.m on Saturday night and then goes until 6 a.m Sunday morning
when we know his vehicle was already parked and abandoned at that parking spot near his parents home and we'll get into
those details now so on Thursday May 8th what we have here plain and simple Ordinary Day
Keith goes to work and then he drives to his parents home in Wichita Falls his apartments in Wichita Falls as well
about a mile away he drops by the parents house he parks on the street according to his family this is this
will be key information later so make note of that on that Thursday May 8th he parks on the street and his mom and dad
say that he is driving a pickup truck that day remember he's a part of this dealership demo program so he will
regularly be driving different Vehicles he can take Vehicles whatever vehicle his manager will allow him to sign out
right for that day so they say on that day he dropped by the house briefly before going to his apartment for the
night he was driving a pickup truck and he parked on the street on Friday May 9th his girlfriend and fiance Carrie had
just graduated from Junior College where they had met your mom goes to college so
he goes and his parents go to the graduation ceremony followed by a dinner remember the college is an hour
and a half away and we have Keith who drives separately and we have his parents who take their
vehicle they all drive out to Wichita Falls and it's kind of like Convoy style right they're they're traveling
separately but they're basically following each other there and following each other back
so they have dinner they go to the graduation and then they return back to Wichita Falls at some point during the
return trip they say that you know Keith has to go his separate way to his apartment and
they continue on to their home this will unfortunately be the last time that his
parents his dad Gregory Keith Mann and his stepmother Deborah man would see Keith one thing that I found weird here
Captain was it's my understanding that one of Keith's sisters he had younger sisters
one of his sisters at least one of them rode with him to the graduation right so
they're in the car for roughly an hour and a half together and later his sister I believe she was about 12 or so said
that he seemed distracted that whole night to her and it's my understanding that she did not ride home
with them because she would go home with her parents and we know that they went their separate ways at some point on
that trip home this leads us to Saturday May 10th and this will be the key day here to really pay attention to all of
these movements so the story has always been this remember he's employed at that
Ron Roberts Ford at that time it was located on Jacksboro Highway in Wichita Falls this is back in
97. he reported for work on that Saturday May 10th and he had a good day he sold two vehicles
Keith had plans to deliver one of the vehicles on Monday dealership allowed him to drive home a
vehicle for the night and Keith selected a red 1996 Ford Mustang and requested a
gasoline voucher as he did not have any cash at the time It is believed that he filled the car's
tank after leaving work that evening at 9 00 PM using the voucher Keith returned
to his residence at the fountain Gate Apartments on Barnett Road he spoke to his fiancee on the telephone and this
has always been reported to be around 9 30 p.m that evening Keith told her that his friends were picking him up to go
out for the evening remember Keith and Carrie plan to meet the following day as she was moving in to bring everybody up
to speed here Carrie already has a key to the apartment so Keith from my understanding wasn't going to start the
lease on the apartment until May 1st but it was one of those situations where the
previous occupants had moved out early landlord calls up Keith and says hey the apartments available whenever you want
it and he decided to move in early so he moved in sometime in April Well Carrie still away at College she's spending her
some of the time on her weekends driving items and personal belongings of hers to
the apartment and so she's already loading things into the apartment during the weekends leading up to his
disappearance and plan to move in permanently on May 11th the following day we should point out that Carrie was
with her family in Dallas Fort Worth on this Saturday they I believe they attended a concert this was all still
part of the celebration of her graduation her parents were really treating her to a nice weekend
so he's at his apartment and it's always been reported that they spoke on the phone that night around 9 30 that
evening pay attention to these times Keith and his two friends remember he's going to go out and these two friends
are Chris and Chris's fiance Michelle they pick up Keith at his apartment Keith works with Chris and I've seen it
reported that Michelle worked at the dealership as well I'm not certain if that's 100 accurate
but I've seen it reported that way we know before 100 that Chris his buddy worked at Ron Roberts Ford as well after
picking him up they stopped at a Fina gas station this was located on Mcneil Avenue this
is kind of a busy Road in Wichita Falls the business security camera videotape shows them go inside the store at 10 pm
and we also know that Keith was there because he uses his fiance's Fina credit card at the gas station to buy some
snacks right Chris was older remember Keith is only 20 so he's not old enough to buy beer
but Chris he's a little bit older I think two years older than Keith so he's going to buy some beer for
the group after this they visited a McDonald's restaurant before going mudding in one of the dealership's cars
that Chris had borrowed for the evening this is kind of a weird part of the story right because what we're going to
have here Captain is Keith will vanish shortly after hanging out with these two friends so we really
should put everything they say and all of their movements under a microscope as we're going through this timeline here
and part of this timeline is Chris and Michelle saying that we are going mudding
what I found weird about this is that they were borrowing a vehicle from the dealership to go mudding in that
doesn't seem incredibly responsible sounds like something the captain would do it sounds like you're setting
yourself up to do damage to the vehicle and you're either going to have to pay out of pocket or lose your job or both
but again they're all in their early 20s and it sounds like something people would do in their early 20s just not
well thought out some people do some dumb stuff I've got dumb stuff planned for this evening after they went mudding
now Chris wants to clean off the vehicle right so they go to a car wash where they're going to hose it down and during
this time period it's always been reported that Keith says to Chris and Michelle that he needed to go home soon
because he was meeting someone at 12 15 am there's some debate on what happens here
because it's always been reported that Keith did not mention the person's name or the location of the meeting or why
they were meeting to to begin with yeah very suspicious very creepy part of the story his friends drop him off and Chris
and Michelle say that they saw Keith walk up the stairs toward his apartment at approximately 11 45 PM that night but
they did not see Keith enter his residence he has never been heard from again [Music]
[Music] all right we are back to the windows to the walls cheers to everybody out there cheers to
you Colonel cheers to you Captain if we were 20 years younger we would pick up some beers and go mudding tonight yeah
done and done done and done all right uh so go ahead so Thursday he goes to work
he has a loaner car he visits his parents on Friday they go to this graduation drive separate vehicles on Saturday he
goes to work sells some cars and he goes out with his friends and they drop him off at his apartment
around midnight how many individuals were there when they dropped him off from my understanding it's Chris and
Michelle that are dropping him off the same two that picked him up the same two that he went to the gas station
McDonald's and mudding with right and add a little more detail here but we have okay so it's reported that Chris he's on
the dealerships demo program as well and so he signed out a black Nissan Pathfinder this is an SUV especially in
these days you get an SUV every young man is excited to take it off-roading weather all these years later we learned
that most of them are not built to go off-roading but they get this Pathfinder and they go
mudding and according to the information I have here Captain is that they went to
a place behind Memorial Stadium and they went mudding for approximately 45 minutes and it's my understanding
that this is a well-lit area it's also a common area that people back then would
take vehicles and go off-roading with them they washed the vehicle at a local car wash on the way home and then Keith
at some point has told them I'm meeting someone at 12 15 does not say who he's meeting or where or why seems pretty
late to be meeting somebody it's very late but he's 20 years old he's been in his first apartment on his own for
six weeks you know people's hours get real weird when they don't live with Mom and Dad for the first few weeks now or
somebody could be dropping just dropping by to see the apartment or dropping something off for his apartment so to be
clear here though as far as law enforcement is concerned it's always been reported in the public
that Keith never said who he was meeting it almost paints a picture of he was trying
to hide something [Music] trying to be secretive about something however law enforcement has told
us and told a couple of other people that that's a little unclear to them because when asking Chris and Michelle
to recount the knights events both of them seem to want to try to recall a name almost like Keith had told them a
name but they just couldn't remember it so we could just assume that maybe it was an individual that they just didn't
know someone they didn't know what I think is clear here though is they didn't know the location or the reason
for the meeting Keith may have said someone's name he may have not if you told me if we're hanging out at the bar
and I go to drop you off at your house that you have to meet somebody but it was somebody that I wasn't familiar with
I probably am less likely to remember their name but if you said oh you know our buddy Todd or our buddy Paul I'm
going to meet them well I'd remember that when they drop him off when they drop Keith off at his apartment they
drop him in the parking lot and he has to walk up the steps to his apartment they say that they see him going up the
steps but do not see him enter the apartment however when he gets out of the Pathfinder
remember they picked up beers earlier that night at the gas station yeah b w r u n Beer Run he took three of the beers
with him and this will be key because there's obvious signs later that he made it into his apartment and one of the
obvious signs is those three beers are later found on the counter inside of the apartment yeah it seems
like pretty solid evidence the tricky thing here though is when they find the three beers two are full and not open
and one of them has been open in his almost uh get gone or it's half full and so
I don't know you can make what you want out of that but it appears to me like he
cracked open a beer continued to sip on it and at some point was interrupted or left before we get into too much
speculation let's get into Sunday May 11th the next day Keith's parents noticed the Ford Mustang that he had
borrowed from work this is why we went into the detail of him parking on the street when he went to his family's
house on that Thursday that's key to me because Keith's parents noticed the Ford
Mustang that he borrowed from work in a church parking lot near their home this is near the 4300 block of Mcneil
Avenue they noticed this vehicle there during the morning hours of May 11th remember he's last seen
just before midnight on May 10th now I want to be clear here at this point when they see this vehicle there
not fully aware that it's Keith's vehicle remember he can drive home a different
vehicle each night right this church is located very close to their home and I don't have the exact distance from their
home to this church parking lot where this vehicle was found but I know that it's close enough in
distance that the family has said we could see that parking spot regardless of what car or vehicle was parked there
we could see that parking spot from at least one window in our home so rather close to their home
and this is important because this was a parking spot that Keith used to use he used this parking spot when he was in
high school he would use it when he would come from college and visit for the weekend or stay the night with his
parents this is because this parking spot was close enough that he could park the car
in that spot and walk to their home and leave the vehicle there now weeks before remember he went and
moved back in with Mom and Dad before moving into the apartment right and it sounds like he was using that same
parking spot during that time period what happened was the church gets a new pastor
and the pastor tells Keith's parents hey I don't want your son using our pop our parking lot
anymore and his parents attend church there so his dad of course is saying hey son
the the new guy doesn't want you to park your car in there in their lot anymore don't park there and we know that that
conversation took place based off of several factors but one piece of evidence of that is that he parked the
truck on that Thursday in front of his parents house on the street so very weird that this mustang is found in this
parking spot that he used to use a lot number one and number two it would be some time
later that they would figure out that it was Keith's vehicle so what happens is we have the First on record publicly
citing of this Ford Mustang in that parking spot around 6 a.m this is when Keith's father goes out to get the
newspaper from their driveway later that day they went to church his dad and stepmom go to church well isn't
that special and after the services this is around noon they noticed that that vehicle was still there well it kind of
piqued their interest so they went over and looked at it and they could tell that it was a vehicle from Ron Roberts
Ford dealership and it's also the parking spot that there's on parks in right so it doesn't take Sherlock Holmes
to put two and two together here to equal four they figure all right well we told Keith not to use this spot anymore
this is a Mustang a loaner car from Ron Roberts Ford he must have parked it here
yeah they're probably thinking that son of a [ __ ] never listens to me and we're
gonna get in trouble with the pastor now well this might have raised the red flag
or two but it didn't really sound off any alarms for the parents again he had used this spot plenty of times in the
past and they thought maybe he had just parked it there somebody picked him up that night and just saw him a couple
days ago it right and that he just left the vehicle there for whatever reason I'm sure they were probably going to
give him the what for for parking there now what raises the red flag though is about an hour or so later when Keith's
fiance Carrie calls his parents this is roughly in the one o'clock hour one in the afternoon
she calls and she says hey I've been at the apartment for a while Keith is not here remember she has her
own Keys she's been moving things in periodically Keith is not here there's some beers on the counter
which is weird he would have put them in the fridge there's some dirty clothes in
the bathroom on the floor and when I arrived the door was locked his car there was no car here which
you know she wouldn't she likely would not have known what vehicle he was driving either but maybe they had a
designated parking spot and she said that his bed was still made it looked like no one had slept in it by the time
that she had arrived and she had been there for some time and she was starting to get worried so she called initially
called his parents just to see if he was at their house well there's so many questions because
you the first question is did somebody meet him at the apartment and they left in the in that vehicle or did he meet
somebody at that church yeah and so now the parents knowing that the last time they saw him was with the fiance at the
graduation in the graduation dinner is finding the vehicle in the church parking lot nobody being able to get a
hold of Keith mind you this is 97 Keith did not have a cell phone a no pager correct and so this is when we start
having major red flags go up and it would be on Monday May 12th that Keith's parents would officially
report him missing so the Sunday is pretty uneventful I mean they don't know where Keith is and his girlfriend's
trying to move into their apartment and it's really hard to track him down because they actually don't know what
vehicle he could be driving but they do see a vehicle from the car lot in a parking spot that he's known to park at
so let's discuss that Monday yeah and keep in mind here what we got going on right
for most of that Sunday once they realize that he's missing his parents for the most part just
believe he probably went out partying with somebody stayed up way too late crashed on somebody's couch and he's
just unaccounted for it's really not until that evening that Sunday evening or Sunday night that they start to
become worried now Carrie has an uneasy feeling right away and part of that is why she called his parents and said hey
just thought maybe he would be over there once she discovers that he's not there that uneasy feeling grows and now
she's concerned that something terrible has happened to her fiance Keith so much so that she tells Keith's
parents look I don't feel comfortable staying here her parents live in El Paso Texas
so Sunday night when he doesn't return it's either stay at this apartment or drive all the way to El Paso however she
contacts Keith's parents and says I don't feel safe staying at this apartment alone I don't
know what happened to Keith or why he is not here but it could be something terrible I could be in danger and not
even know it so can I stay with you and so she stays at Keith's parents house that Sunday
night in fact she would continue to stay there for several weeks she would go in
and out of the apartment on occasion but never staying there overnight as she didn't feel safe there
so we have Keith being officially reported missing on Monday the 12th and I keep
saying the word official here Captain because because you like to repeat yourself like
a parrot well we've been told that there was communication with the Wichita Falls
Police Department before an official report was filed I don't know if they told him they had to wait a certain
amount of time or if they said hey give us a call in the morning and we'll come come by and take a report in person but
for the record the official report was made on Monday May 12th now to fill in the blanks a little more on the fiance
you know she was going to move in and we also know that she was she already had a
job lined up you know she had finished college she has the new apartment new fiance she had a job lined up and she
was to start her job on Monday May 12th but we know that she only stays in Wichita Falls for a couple of weeks
after Keith goes missing now on Monday morning this is when they confirmed his parents confirmed that Keith had in fact
borrowed the red Mustang that they found in the parking lot they make a phone call and say hey we found this vehicle
here it's been left here we know that it belongs to you guys so his parents go by and take a visual
kind of inspection of the vehicle just so everybody's clear there is no sign of a struggle there's no sign of a crime
scene at his apartment correct but same goes with this mustang right there's nothing that suggests
that there was some kind of struggle there's no signs of blood right so when the parents find the vehicle the doors
to the Mustang are locked but the alarm system was never turned on for the vehicle so what they did is they
called the dealership hoping that somebody could come out with a second pair of keys and open up the vehicle to
see if maybe Keith left a note or something inside unfortunately the dealership did not
have a second set of keys so they had to call someone to get the you know to a locksmith to get the car doors open
and I guess they got the doors open rather quickly but the problem became getting the vehicle to start to turn on
the engine to drive the vehicle was very difficult took several hours the basic description we get of the vehicle comes
from his parents and what they say is it looked like the interior had been cleaned that none of Keith's property
was discovered inside the vehicle however there was an audio cassette that was found in the stereo I don't know if
this has ever been confirmed or if anybody would be able to confirm if this audio cassette was Keith's or not it
could have simply been left there by somebody else that borrowed the vehicle at the dealership or the previous owner
whatever the cassette was it's my understanding that the parents had listened to it at some point and I
believe that the cassette has been lost over the years again it may not be any really it may not hold really any
evidentiary value at all yeah the rumor was it was a weirdo Yankovic tape Another One Rides the Bus yeah but uh
what they do is they eventually get the vehicle back to the dealership a question for you not to cut you off here
but when he when you say the vehicle seemed to be clean well wouldn't the vehicle be cleaned before Keith takes it
off the lot anyways correct I mean this car is a car that they are trying to sell at the dealership it right it would
be silly for it not to be clean so it may just be as simple as he drove it home that night the dealership isn't
terribly far from his apartment and whoever moved it whether it be Keith or somebody else that the car was just
used very little between the time that it left the dealership and that it was placed in that lot meaning why
you wouldn't expect to find many if any of his personal belongings in the car and you would expect the car to be clean
right because it came from the lot now the weird thing here and this is something that I've not been able to
really wrap my head around on on having an opinion on if this means anything at all but what we have Captain is Chris
Keith's friend that worked at the dealership calls Keith's father and says hey by the way I just want to let you
know that when we received the vehicle back here the driver's side seat was pushed all
the way back and Chris was taller than Keith and said that anytime he got into a vehicle after
Keith did he always had to push the seat back because Keith was only five foot six inches tall according to the story
that we received from Keith's father is that it was Chris that made that phone call to alert them that hey this might
be something the car seat was pushed all the way back we do need to keep in mind though Chris
is receiving this information second hand himself by the action by another person that worked there that received
the car that checked it in what I could not find was a report or anyone with a statement of who was the person that
returned the vehicle to the dealership it may just be as simple as yeah it was a Big John Stud that works in the back
right the the car seat could have been found in a different setting than once it received the dealership right sitting
in that parking lot old Andre the Giant had to return the car sitting in that parking lot it could have been in a
setting for a shorter individual and a taller person drove it back to the dealership and that would explain that
or whoever placed the vehicle in the parking lot was taller than Keith Mann we were able to speak with Keith's
parents Gregory man and Deborah Mann and get some further insights into Keith's still unsolved case here we
asked them to explain to us the emotional toll that this has taken on them and their family but yeah we missed
out on a lot and and also I think it just the repercussions you know it caused a lot of things to be different
by us going through this all these years um it really affected our daughters um they probably
grew up differently than what they would have because one was like in sixth grade
the other one was probably like in fourth so you know we got real protective of them
you know we didn't want them you know going anywhere without us or you know even playing out out front in
the front yard you know we were scared we didn't know what this had to do with and we had a lot of people you know
would go down our street and kind of drive real slow and be looking at our house but we didn't know if you know
that was just you know onlookers or if that was somebody that was involved and so you know we're real kind of
protective of them and um they probably didn't do some of the stuff that they they would have if this
hadn't happened and you know we really didn't feel like going on family vacations or you know it was just we all
turned depressed and we just kind of really didn't know how to deal with it because it at the time
you know we couldn't say 100 oh it's a death so you know you were mourning we're going through the you know the
five stages of grief or you know whatever we couldn't really say that because we were hoping he's still alive
and you know um it's taken all these years now and going on the 25th anniversary was like
well you know it doesn't sound like he is still alive that something had to have
happened at the very beginning but because we didn't have any facts on it we couldn't we couldn't mourn properly
or we couldn't deal with it and um like I said it really affected the whole our family Dynamics and you know how our
life would have been different you feel like you're stuck in 1997. uh life hasn't really gone on so
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20 year old Keith Mann Jr. went missing in the middle of the night. His case is a strange one because of many factors. Keith lived alone in an apartment. There are signs that he was meeting an unknown person that night. His vehicle was found in a strange location but completely undisturbed. Did this meeting really take place? This is just one of the questions that needs to be answered. Keith has been missing now for 25 years. He’s been missing now for more years than he was with us and the Wichita Falls Police Department is determined to bring Keith home for his family and a proper burial. There is a reward in this case for information leading to the finding of Keith’s body. With the 25th anniversary of the date he went missing fast approaching Crime Stoppers has increased the reward to $25,000. Information and tips can be submitted by calling WFPD’s CIS @ 940-761-7762. Or if you wish to remain anonymous you can call Crime Stoppers @ 800-322-9888. Information and tips can also be submitted anonymously online @ WFcrime.com

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Brief Summary

The episode discusses the 1997 disappearance of Gregory Keith Mann Jr in Wichita Falls, Texas, and the ongoing investigation into his case.

Key points

A Life Full of Promise. Keith was on the brink of adulthood with dreams and responsibilities.
The Disappearance of Keith Mann Jr.. A young man goes missing just as he starts his adult life.
Renewed Interest in the Case. As the 25-year anniversary approaches, the investigation heats up.
The Last Goodbye. Keith's parents see him for the last time at his graduation dinner.
Mysterious Meeting. Keith tells his friends he has a meeting at 12:15 AM, but doesn't reveal details.
Unsettling Discovery. Carrie finds Keith's apartment in disarray and becomes worried about his safety.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

We will never know.

Discussing the uncertainty of Keith's fate.

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Tension

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