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