China Videon, Now 26, MSG 10/19/99 Christiana, TN

[Pauli]

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China Videon

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Age Progression

Case Type: Endangered Missing DOB: Nov 30, 1982 Sex: Female Missing Date: Oct 19, 1999 Race: White Age Now: 24 Height: 5'3" (160 cm) Missing City: CHRISTIANA Weight: 120 lbs (54 kg) Missing State : TN Hair Color: Brown Missing Country: United States Eye Color: Blue Case Number: NCMC874543
Circumstances: China's photo is shown age-progressed 20 years. She may be in the company of an adult male. She has a pierced naval and several piercings in her ears. She also has a butterfly tattoo on her right hip and a scar on her right knee.

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FROM OCT. 2007>>
Missing Girl's Case Still Open 8 Years Later
China Videon's Mother Hopeful For Answers
POSTED: 12:35 pm CDT October 19, 2007

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- A local mother is still looking for answers in her missing daughter’s 8-year-old case.

And, with the opening of a cold case division in the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department, Suzanne Videon is hopeful she’ll get them.

Oct. 19 marked the 8-year anniversary of the disappearance of Videon’s daughter, China. Videon said China never returned home after a night at work at a Murfreesboro grocery store. Her car was discovered eight months later at a south Nashville apartment complex.

Videon said she and detectives believe China is dead but still want to know who did it and why.

“I think there’s somebody out there that knows something and is afraid to come forth or maybe don’t even realize they know something. But I firmly believe (that) secrets are hard to keep, and somebody always tells somebody else, so I feel like there’s somebody out there that knows something that could help,” she said.

China was 16 at the time of her disappearance in 1999 and a student at Riverdale High School. Videon said it's hard to explain the level of loss she feels.

"Unless you have it happen to you, you don't understand it or feel the impact of it unless it happens to you," she said.

Videon’s case is one of more than 200 that the cold case division is working on. Detectives said they have followed several leads, but there haven't been enough to make arrests.

The cases that the two-person cold case unit investigates run a broad range of robberies, slayings and missing persons, officials said.

The division said anyone with information, no matter how small, should contact the division at 615-898-7770.
http://www.wsmv.com/news/14378535/detail.html

[sarahhod]

Mother searches for answers in daughter's disappearance

http://www.murfreesboropost.com/news.php?viewStory=7149


By: By Lisa Marchesoni - Oct. 20, 2007 - 11 AM

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Mother Suzanne Videon paints pottery as 'therapy' after her daughter remains missing after eight years.


Out of the blue, 16-year-old China Videon told her mother, “Mom, don’t be sad if I died.”

When mother Suzanne Videon questioned her daughter why she made the comment, her daughter didn’t have an answer.

Six days later, China disappeared.

“I think sometimes they know,” the mother said softly.

It’s been eight years last Friday since the mother saw her daughter whom she now believes is deceased.

But just in case, she’s kept her cellular telephone on since China disappeared, turning it off only briefly recently when she bought a new phone.

Videon, a registered nurse recovering from knee surgery, and her roommate Tina Thomas spent Friday afternoon in “therapy” at Painted Clay Studio where she painted a food bowl for her dog, Genuine. Best friend Terry Rury stopped by to spend time with her.

The mother appealed for people with information about her daughter’s disappearance to call Detective Lt. Bill Sharp or Detective Sgt. Dan Goodwin of the sheriff’s Cold Case unit at 217-4373 or 898-7916.

She believes someone know what happened to her daughter but may be afraid to come forward. Other people may have information about her daughter’s disappearance they believe may not be important but may be the clue detectives need.

“Or someone will get a guilty conscience and come forward,” Videon said.

She clings to hope the crime will be solved.

“I would like closure, I want justice to be served,” Videon said. “I want to know what happened to her and where she is. … If a person has a heart and soul, they should come forward.”

Videon recalled the last time she saw daughter China, a Riverdale High School student who worked at Bi-Lo grocery store on Rutherford Boulevard.

On the night of Oct. 19, 1999, China got off work, met her mother about 7 p.m. at a beauty salon in Jackson Heights Plaza, then left to go to a friend’s house. Nothing seemed amiss.

Suzanne Videon returned home about 7:50 p.m. As she drove up the driveway of her Shelbyville Highway home, she suddenly stopped.

“I can’t describe it,” Videon said, motioning with her hands about a feeling she experienced. “It started at the top of my head right there, then moved down my body through my feet and into the ground. What ever happened to her, I think that’s when it happened. It was just weird.”

Videon repeatedly paged her daughter who didn’t answer. Her older daughter, Cheyann, who was 18 at the time, searched for China but couldn’t locate her. They notified the sheriff’s office.

Several detectives have investigated the case but one one’s been charged.

Goodwin said China’s black Mazda was found about nine months later, June 23, 2000, in an apartment complex off Harding Road in Antioch.

“It’s clear that China Videon was a victim of a crime,” Goodwin said. “It’s our intention to do our best to solve that crime and find out what became of her. Give us a call even if you talked to detectives before.”

Since her disappearance, Videon thinks of her daughter every day.

“China and I were almost like friends,” Videon said. “We did everything together. Cheyann was the social butterfly.”

Videon still lives in the same house. She kept China’s bedroom untouched where she often laid down or sat down on the bed and cried. Six months ago, she put China’s belongings in storage.

“The reminder is so overpowering, I felt I needed to change part of it so it would be easier to deal with,” the mother said, adding, “I think to remain healthy, sometimes you need to let go of something. That’s very painful to you day in and day out.”

She copes by working and keeping busy. Some days she sits and cries.

“I don’t think it gets any easier,” the mother observed. “I think your anger grows. I know I should forgive and forget but when there’s no closure, that’s hard to do.”

Thomas said it’s particularly difficult because a parent should not have to bury a child.

Rury said, “there’s always hope.”

Videon knows it’s always painful to lose a child but most parents have a chance to touch their child and tell them goodbye with a touch or a kiss.

“I’m denied a chance to bury her, to say goodbye to her,” Videon said.

[Roamer]

Such a long time to wonder what happened to your child. :1187603408.CR.Mothe

[packy]

I hope some new awareness of her case will bring some news of where she is. I read that a hair stylist who was at the shop that day remembers she was there for about 30 minutes and then called a friend and left. This person was thankful that someone took the time to post China's case. Bless her heart. My prayers go out for China and her mom and family.

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http://www.rutherfordcounty.org/so/missing.htm

Rutherford County Sheriff's Office
Criminal Investigations Division


MISSING PERSONS

If you have any information concerning missing persons, please contact the Rutherford County Sheriff's Dept. (615-898-7770) or click on the "Anonymous Tip" button and stay anonymous.

http://www.rutherfordcounty.org/so/china2.jpg

NAME: China Renee Videon
RACE/SEX : White Female
DOB : 11-30-82 HGT : 5'03" WGT: 120
HAIR: Blonde EYES: Blue
TATTOO: Butterfly on right lower back

VEHICLE: 1999 Mazda Protege, 4door, black in color, tinted windows,
TAG# TN 784PGX

[nanabillie]

http://www.dnj.com/article/20091026/NEWS06/910260317/Search-for-China-Videon-continues
Search for China Videon continues

Mother, Cold Case Unit seek clues decade after she vanished

BY MARK BELL • MBELL@DNJ.COM • October 26, 2009
China Videon left a beauty salon in the Jackson Heights Plaza area in Murfreesboro a decade ago as a 16-year-old. Now the search for a missing teen, depending who is asked, is a search for a missing woman — or her body.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children sends out a yearly letter containing an age-progressed photo that shows Videon in her 20s. The letter asks for the public's help, as part of its "ongoing search."

Videon's mother and the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Unit have, what Suzanne Videon calls, a more "realistic" outlook on the situation.
"I would like to think that she could be found (alive), but after 10 years the chances of that are discouraging," Suzanne Videon said.
The Rutherford County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Unit reopened China's case in 2007, "poring through two boxes of evidence and re-interviewing those who knew her," according to one account.

Detectives in that unit make it clear that their investigation is a homicide investigation.
"China was legally declared dead several years ago," said Rutherford County Sheriff's Detective Sgt. Dan Goodwin.

Since the case was reopened, members of the Cold Case Unit still struggle with the fact that China's whereabouts are unknown. Cold Case Unit members also still believe there are people out there with more information on the case.
"Lt. (Bill) Sharp and I would ... encourage anyone, particularly her friends who may not have been interviewed in 1999, to contact us," Goodwin said. "Additionally, we would ask that anyone who has information about this matter to contact us."
The Cold Case Unit phone number is 904-3034.

Suzanne Videon said she relives the day her daughter — who she said was "very much a homebody" — went missing "every single day" of her life. Birthdays, anniversaries and holidays are especially difficult. She recalled the day her daughter went missing.

"I pulled into my driveway and I just got the feeling that something had happened," she said. "It was unusual for her not to be somewhere where she said she was going to be. I knew she wasn't alive that night when I pulled in the driveway."

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The mother knew her daughter planned to stop and get gas on the way home from the salon, where she was working, and planned to return home.

Videon reported China, then 16, missing in the early morning hours of Oct. 20, but police, due to protocol, could not consider her a missing person until after 48 hours had passed without familial contact.
Investigators, in 1999, tried to pull video from local gas stations following her disappearance, but the effort was fruitless.

"They (store surveillance videos) had already been recorded over," Videon said.
The first break in the case wouldn't come until June 2000, when police found China's abandoned Mazda Protégé at a south Nashville apartment complex.
"I remember wondering if her body was going to be in the trunk," Suzanne Videon said.
No body was found, though, and people who were interviewed in the area said they'd never seen Videon.
The mother said she is now, after 10 years, hoping someone will finally come forward with the bit of information that will allow her and her family some closure in the case.
"I think after a while people tend to forget or are scared, but there has to be someone out there who knows ... very few people can keep a secret," she said. "How did the vehicle (http://www.dnj.com/article/20091026/NEWS06/910260317/Search-for-China-Videon-continues#) get from where it was here to where it was found?"
The mother also doesn't understand how "whoever did this can look at themselves, let alone live with the secret of what they did ... knowing that they murdered somebody."
Suzanne Videon just wants some closure.
"I just want to know what happened to her and if my baby had to suffer," Videon said.

[Nut44x4]

WAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! I saw this was moved and was hoping she had been found...WAAAAAAA!

[Amusedtdth]

WAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! I saw this was moved and was hoping she had been found...WAAAAAAA!

Dontcha just hate when that happens.