Missing From: Crestview , Florida
Missing: August 2, 1997
Age at Disappearance: 16
Height: 5′ 3″
Weight: 109
Hair: Light Brown
Eyes: Blue
Distinguishing Characteristics: Scars, Marks, Tattoos: Caucasian female. Brown to sandy-blonde hair, blue eyes. Kristy has a lazy right eye. Her navel is pierced and she has pierced ears.
Details of Disappearance: Kristy told her family she was spending the night of August 1, 1997 at a girlfriend’s home in Crestview, Florida. She stayed at her boyfriend’s instead. This was the first time she had spent the night with him. Her boyfriend, Mack Cawthon, told authorities Kristy departed his house on north Lloyd Street at approximately 5:00 a.m. on August 2. He asked her to leave early so his grandparents, who lived next door, would not know she had stayed there. Cawthon’s residence was located less than one mile from Kristy’s family’s Walnut Avenue house, about a fifteen-minute walk. She never arrived home and has never been heard from again.In February 1998, six months after Kristy’s disappearance, a bag containing clothing belonging to her was found in a wooded area behind the Crestview Plaza Shopping Center. The area had already been thoroughly searched by investigators and cadaver dogs; they believe, therefore, that the bag was left there after the search.
Investigative Agency: Crestview Police Department 850-682-2055
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