Name: Mystery: 16-year-old NC girl disappeared from her home 21 years ago
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Description: May 12, 2022 marked the 21st anniversary of the disappearance of a Lenoir County girl. As WITN reporter Dave Jordan continues to look back at his 25-years of reporting in eastern Carolina, the case of Timeka Pridgen remains the greatest mystery he's ever covered.

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May 12, 2022 marked the 21st anniversary of the disappearance of a Lenoir County girl. As WITN reporter Dave Jordan continues to look back at his 25-years of reporting in eastern Carolina, the case of Timeka Pridgen remains the greatest mystery he's ever covered. 

this Lagrange home is the last place to make a Pridgen was seen. Shot. That you know, the child would go missing with no trace whatsoever. That was May 12 of 2001 when she was just 16 years old. 21 years later, her family, friends and investigators asked the same question, what happened to Tamika just to completely disappear off the face of the Earth, is very very unusual every day. I miss her and I want so badly to know you know what she is and what happened that's Tamika's mom, cassandra best who talked with me over the years as the investigation into her daughter's disappearance continued, I sat down with her again as another year passes with no answers. I miss her every single day. I think about her every single day. People don't just disappear into thin air. But this is what this feels like, like no trace, no trace at all. That is the nightmare cassandra lives with every day. She says Tamika seemingly vanished from their home while she was taking a nap. She still believes today as she did when I talked with her previously that someone abducted her and that she did not leave on her own. She um left her shoes and her purse and she had money in her purse. She left back and this particular evening he had Ryan earlier and he had turned really cool. So I know she would not have just walked out without his shoes on. It was the Lagrange police Department that originally investigated to make his disappearance from her home here. So where do they stand with the investigation today? Well, the Police Department doesn't exist anymore. The case is now in the hands of the Lenore County Sheriff's office where Sheriff Ronnie ingram says investigators were back out searching around the house in the past few years that we actually went out and met with a group and, and we went, went over the area, walked all through the wooded area down there with dogs, cadaver, dogs and um dogs still didn't hit nothing. We did a couple of fields right there by, just passed the house. Uh, nothing cassandra told me years ago. She felt like the initial investigation into her daughter's disappearance was hindered because of a missing persons case weeks earlier involving a classmate of Tamika's. That turned out to be a hoax that just wasn't enough attention on it when it first happened. You know, when people say those 1st 48 hours are so crucial. That is true. She first suspected her soon to be boyfriend at the time, knew what happened and that hasn't changed, fueling her concerns. He's been convicted of multiple sex offenses and kidnapping and served time in prison. But he had consistently said he wasn't there that day. Today. Tamika would be 37 years old, about 10 years ago. This age progression composite image was released of what she may look like. While the case remains cold cassandra says she knows there are answers. Someone knows something and they're just refusing to come forward and it's very difficult. But I know for the family situation they need some kind of closure. Hope against hope. We hope she's still alive. You know, you hate to think the worst. You hope for the best and we hope that somewhere she is still somewhere out there and it is hoped that cassandra holds onto hope that Tamika is still alive and hope that one day she will see her again. But I think about her every day and I guess I have another choice because I wake up to her picture staring at me every morning. I really miss her a lot.

Maggie Brown

Mystery: 16-year-old NC girl disappeared from her home 21 years ago 

Timeka Pridgen

Lenoir County,cold case,missing person,true crime

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