What happened to Roy Whited? Preview Dateline: Missing in America Season 4
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Speaker 1 Hi, I'm Josh Mankowicz with a preview of Dateline Missing in America. In our podcast's fourth season, we share six new unsolved mysteries.
Speaker 1 And we hope someone listening may have a clue that could help crack one of these cases.
Speaker 1 Could that someone be you?
Speaker 1 Here's Dateline Missing in America
Speaker 1 tucked into the rolling hills and valleys of Middle Tennessee is Sparta, a rural community where neighbors aren't strangers, and many who live here see each other every week at church.
Speaker 1 For almost a decade at the DeRossett Church of Christ, gospel music and the sermons of Pastor Roy Whited made the Sunday morning service soar.
Speaker 2 He was a good preacher, you know, he had the way with the word.
Speaker 1 Doug Watts says Roy is the reason he started going to church again, more than 20 years after he'd quit.
Speaker 2 I told him he did it, and he said, no, God done it. Yeah, I said he did it through you, you know.
Speaker 2 And
Speaker 2 I believe that.
Speaker 1 In the first week of May 2024, something happened in Sparta that seemed almost impossible to believe.
Speaker 1 That's when 64-year-old Roy Whited
Speaker 1 vanished. He's just gone like a puff of smoke, isn't he?
Speaker 2 Yes, sir. It's just unbelievable.
Speaker 1 For White County Sheriff Steve Page,
Speaker 1
Roy's case is personal. Me and Roy are friends.
The sheriff is as baffled as anyone else, wondering how anyone as recognizable as Roy could disappear in plain sight.
Speaker 2 I would dare to say 95% of the people in this county know Roy Whited, or maybe even 100%.
Speaker 1 It is a mystery that has forced Roy's closest friends and family into the fellowship of the missing.
Speaker 1 It's a group no one chooses to join. Certainly not Roy's brother, Lynn Whitett.
Speaker 2 I pray, I pray, I pray that he is somewhere and we will find him
Speaker 2 because
Speaker 2 otherwise I have to think the worst.
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