TN TN - China Videon, 16, Murfreesboro, 19 October 1999

[Sunscream89]

antioch is a part of Nashville, TN. it's about 40 miles nw of china's home. the receipt was in the bag. items were purchased the day of her disappearance. the sheriff's dept. tried to retrieve surveillance video from the gas station, where China bought gas, (across the street from the grocery store), but the tape had been recorded over and was irretrievable. i have to wonder if someone she worked with at Bi-Lo followed her to the gas station, or maybe she encountered someone at the gas station. i just feel like it had to have been a high school peer, someone she worked with or was a frequent customer. at the time there were only two mainstream public high schools in town, (Riverdale and Oakland) and one high school for troubled kids, (Holloway), also two private schools, FRCS and MTCS.

I just wondered if these managers were people if interest why they never fully named them. I would have liked to have been able to dig into them and search but you can’t do much with Chris and TJ. From a store that is no longer there. Thats frustrating. Why mention it at all if they aren’t helpful.

 

[Sunscream89]

Goose Creek Man is Person of Interest in Cold-Case Murder of 16-year-old Girl
By Raymond Owens
Published: September 8, 2015, 7:33 am Updated: September 8, 2015, 7:35 am

[...]
Det. Steve Craig says, she was a normal 16-year-old girl. She had a job. She was working to pay for a car that she bought for herself. She lived at home with her mother and her sister.

But that all changed on October 19, 1999. She had stopped at the grocery store. She had gotten some groceries and she was on her way to go back and see the two people at the apartment, Chris and TJ. And nobodys seen or heard from her since.

They say Chris and TJ are persons of interest. TJ is now living in Goose Creek.

[...]
If you have any information about the person who murdered China, call crimestoppers at 554-1111.

Usually POI’s they give full names of people over 18. I highly doubt managers were under 18. Who are these guys.. what did they do and what are they doing now. Have they hurt others and what did they threaten her with? I believe they were scaring her somehow with her comment she made to her mom. She was roped into something and I would wager they may not know but people that worked with them all know something.

 

[Sunscream89]

Chris was supposedly China's boyfriend and TJ was Chris' best friend.

But who ARE they?

 

[theshadow45]

China has been missing for 26 years today.

 

[theshadow45]

Today is China's birthday.

 

[Blue Girl1991]

It's pretty clear that China's boyfriend and his friend are responsible for China's disappearance, Chris and TJ. Tj became a person of interest after reportedly telling people he was involved in her death, leading to searches in South Carolina where he lived, though no arrest has been made. Law enforcement focused on TJ and another individual named "Chris," believing China was killed by someone she knew, but the case remains open.

Why didn't the police put a real pressure on these two people? It's terrible that they continued their lives as usual when China was murdered and disappeared and China's loved ones are in a state of grief and without justice and closure.

There are so many cold cases that have been solved after decades, the criminals are found and brought to justice, and the families of the victims receive justice and a closure.... so there is always hope