Myeong-hi Chong was 29 when she drowned in Lake Whitney, Texas, in 1986. She had married Jack Wayne Reeves on December 31, 1980, in South Korea. Her family reported she could not swim and had a strong aversion to water, details that made her drowning suspicious. Bruises were reportedly found on her face and her sister requested an autopsy, but Reeves had Myeong-hi cremated, preventing further forensic analysis.

Investigators later scrutinized Reeves’ history because other women close to him also died under suspicious circumstances. His second wife, Sharon Vaughn, died of a shotgun wound in 1978; that death was initially ruled self-inflicted and was later determined to be a homicide. Reeves’ fourth wife, Emilita Villa, disappeared in 1994 after saying she planned to divorce him and was found in a shallow grave near Lake Whitney in 1995. Both Myeong-hi and Emilita had reportedly complained to friends about mistreatment and had made plans to leave Reeves before their deaths.

Does anyone have details about Myeong-hi’s life in Texas or contemporaneous accounts from friends or family that might shed light on her final days?