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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 but you also cannot be their best friend and it's a parents duty to raise
their children up to be good citizens and to do so your role as a parent should 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 and 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 man 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 a fiance who had just finished
College he went by his middle named Keith Gregory man 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 fiance 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 6:00 a.m. on May 11 1997 this after returning to his apartment in witcho Falls
Texas he has never been heard from again the witch all Falls Times Record News covered the case extensive ly 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 case the
headline was simple and to the point and read police searching for witch it all falls
man the article reads police are searching for a 20-year-old man who was last seen Saturday night at the fountain
Gate Apartments on Barnett Road friends dropped Keith ban Jr off in the parking lot of the apartment complex
around midnight has not been seen since police Lieutenant lur 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 investigations division of the witch 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 and 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 that 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 wital 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 to
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 he at True Crime garage are
very happy to be a part of that renewed interest and awareness in Keith's case and we sincerely hope and pray that us
talking about this case here in the garage this week will in some way big or small help help to get much needed and
deserved answers for a grieving family there are many in the witch all Falls Community that have never forgotten
about Keith man 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
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
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 man Jr who has
been missing from witch all Falls Texas since May of 1997 this is true crime garage
[Music] this week we find ourselves once again in the great state of Texas for another
True Crime Story this one a missing person's case now 25 years old out of Witchita Falls with the population of
right around 100,000 people Witchita Falls is located in the northern portion of Texas not far from the state line in
fact Witchita 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 man Jr was born on February 19th 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 9th grade Keith 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 base 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
witcha 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 wital 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 Carri 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 wit all fall
he moved in with his parents dad and stepmom and lived with them for about 4 months or so Keith's story is very
similar to most college students they 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 which it all falls 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 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 which it's all falls Keith started working there approximately 8 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 3
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
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 midm
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 friends and 6:00 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 2 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 Witchita 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 wiah 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 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 is 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 going to going to be
wiping the SL 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 some did a
really good job of covering up what they had done or B 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 concern concerned with in 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 6:00 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 order AR day Keith goes to work and then he drives to his parents' home in Wich it all
falls his apartments in witch all 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 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 grabed 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 Witchita 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 witch all 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 man 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
maboro Highway in wiah 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 mhm the
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 900 p.m. using the voucher Keith returned to his residence at the fountain Gate Apartments on
Barnett Road he spoke to his fiance 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 remembered 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
apartment's 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 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 for 100% that Chris his buddy worked at Ron Roberts
Ford as well after picking him up they stop at Aina gas station this was located on mcneel Avenue this is kind of
a busy road in Witchita Falls the business security camera videotape shows them go inside the store at 10 p.m. 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 2 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 a 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 p.m. that night
but they did not see Keith enter his residence he has never been heard from [Music]
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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 laner 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 mhm 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 we have okay so it's reported that Chris
he's on the dealership's 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 every young man is excited to take it
off-roading whether 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 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 yeah 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 enforcements 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 mhm trying to
be sec ative 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 kns 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 no 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 less likely to remember their
name but if you said oh you know our buddy uh Todd or our buddy Paul I'm going to meet them well I 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 r you in beer run he took three of the beer 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
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 and is almost uh G gone or it's half full M 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 4,300 block of mcneel 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 they're not fully aware that it'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 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 his 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 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 par 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 their 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 sighting of this Ford Mustang in that parking spot around 6:00 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 he's in that special and after the services this is around noon they noticed that
that vehicle was still there well it kind of peaked their interest so they went over and looked at it and they
could tell that it was a vehicle from Ron Roberts for dealership and also the parking spot that their son 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 the spot anymore this is a Mustang a loner 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 going to get in trouble with the pastor
now well this might have raised a 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 well they just saw him a couple days ago 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 Cary calls his parents
this is roughly in the 1:00 hour 1 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 key 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 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 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 f
at the graduation and the graduation dinner and 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 and 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
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 is 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 till 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 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 witcha Falls Police Department before an official report was filed I don't know if they told them 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 it 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 witch
all 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 and 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 the 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 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 Yankovich
tape Another One Rides the Bus yeah but uh what they do is they eventually get the vehicle back to the dealership
question for you not to cut you off here but when you when you say the vehicle seemed to be cleaned 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 presious 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 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 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 always had to push the seat back because Keith was only 5' 6 in tall right 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 secondhand himself by the act 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 was it 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 caller 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 man we were able to speak
with Keith's parents Gregory man and Deborah man and get some further insights into Keith's still unsolved
case here we asked them to explain to us the emotional toll that this is taken on
them and their family but yeah we we missed that on a lot and and also so I think it just the repercussions you know
it caused a lot of things to be different um by us going through this all these years um it 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 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 were real kind of protective of them and um
they probably didn't do uh 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 we're 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 taking all
these years now at going on the 25th anniversary was like well you 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
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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 (http://wfcrime.com/)

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Brief Summary

Keith Man Jr. went missing in 1997; foul play suspected as investigation continues.

Key points

The Disappearance of Keith Man Jr.. Keith Man Jr. went missing on May 11, 1997, just as he was starting his adult life.
Renewed Interest in the Case. As the 25-year anniversary approaches, the case of Keith Man Jr. is heating up with new leads.
The Disappearance Timeline. Exploring the events leading up to Keith's mysterious disappearance.
Suspicious Meeting. Keith mentioned a meeting at 12:15 but didn't disclose details.
Last Seen Before Midnight. Keith was last seen by his friends before midnight on May 10th.
Found Vehicle. Keith's Mustang was found in a church parking lot, raising concerns.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

This is not a Cold Case; it's very much active.

The ongoing investigation into Keith's disappearance.

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