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MISSING: Gregory ‘Keith’ Mann Jr.

It’s the kind of detail that lingers: a meeting, just after midnight… that no one can explain. In May 1997, 20-year-old Keith Mann was building a future—new apartment, new job, new fiancée. But sometime after being dropped off at home late that night, Keith stepped back out into the dark to meet someone. By morning, he was gone. The only thing left behind was a borrowed car from the dealership he’d been working at. Found abandoned in a church parking lot right next to his parent’s home. Decades later, that midnight meeting is still a mystery. No one has ever come forward. If you remember Keith or anything about his life in Wichita Falls in 1997, his family is still searching for answers.
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33m
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12 Oct 2026
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It’s the kind of detail that lingers: a meeting, just after midnight… that no one can explain. In May 1997, 20-year-old Keith Mann was building a future—new apartment, new job, new fiancée. But sometime after being dropped off at home late that night, Keith stepped back out into the dark to meet someone. By morning, he was gone. The only thing left behind was a borrowed car from the dealership he’d been working at. Found abandoned in a church parking lot right next to his parent’s home. Decades later, that midnight meeting is still a mystery. No one has ever come forward. If you remember Keith or anything about his life in Wichita Falls in 1997, his family is still searching for answers. 


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- Hi, crime junkies, I'm your host, Ashley Flowers. - And I'm Britt. - And you guys, this is a story that I've been wanting to share with you for so long, because I don't know about you, but to me, some of the most mysterious cases are the ones where a person just completely disappears without a trace. Like, those are off to the stories that I find myself thinking about in the night when I can't sleep. And the disappearance of Gregory Keith Mann Jr. is one of those cases. Because this was a guy who seemingly has it all. 20 years old, new apartment, a good job, a fiancé who is about to move in, but the night before she gets there, Keith told his work friends that he had a secret meeting just after midnight, and then he's never seen again. Did he get cold feet and just walk away from everything? Did something happen during that meeting? Was the meeting even real? And if so, who did he meet? (upbeat music) (upbeat music)
This case is extra sad when you realized that it was Mother's Day when Keith Mann's dad and stepmom first realized that he was missing. Greg and Deborah were home that Sunday in 1997 when they got a call from their son's fiance, Carrie, asking if they'd seen Keith. They haven't, not since late Friday night, at least when they were all together over in Gainesville, Texas celebrating Carrie's graduation. But they're almost certain that he got home safe because he had followed them back to Wichita Falls in his car and he was behind them the whole way right up until they turned on to their street. And then his apartment that he had was just like another two miles up the road. Carrie knows that he must have made it to the apartment because she said that she talked to him the next day, which would've been Saturday at like 9.40 p.m. He had worked that day and he was planning to go hang out with some friends. But she was calling from the apartment and it didn't look like Keith had even been there at all the night before.

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It’s the kind of detail that lingers: a meeting, just after midnight… that no one can explain. In May 1997, 20-year-old Keith Mann was building a future—new apartment, new job, new fiancée. But sometime after being dropped off at home late that night, Keith stepped back out into the dark to meet someone. By morning, he was gone. The only thing left behind was a borrowed car from the dealership he’d been working at. Found abandoned in a church parking lot right next to his parent’s home. Decades later, that midnight meeting is still a mystery. No one has ever come forward. If you remember Keith or anything about his life in Wichita Falls in 1997, his family is still searching for answers.