China Renee Videon, 16, was last seen in Christiana, Tennessee, on the evening of Tuesday, October 19, 1999. After finishing a shift at the Bi-Lo grocery store she stopped at the Just Image beauty salon to visit her mother for about half an hour, then told her she needed gas and planned to see a friend before returning home for an 8:30 p.m. curfew. When she didn’t return and failed to answer pages, her family reported her missing.

China had recently bought a 1999 black Mazda Protege. In June 2000 the Protege was found abandoned in a south Nashville apartment-complex parking lot. The car appeared to have sat there for some time; groceries from the night she disappeared were inside, but the vehicle had been wiped clean of fingerprints and DNA and showed no obvious signs of a struggle. That discovery shifted investigators toward the possibility of foul play.

Around 2015 investigators named two persons of interest, managers at the Bi-Lo identified only as Chris and TJ. Reports say China may have been seen at their home after leaving the salon and that TJ was living in South Carolina and had allegedly made incriminating statements to others; detectives traveled there but no arrest was announced. The case remains an endangered missing person investigation.

If anyone knew China, saw her car, or has information about her movements on October 19, 1999, please come forward.