The northeast Texas mother-of-three disappeared along with her vehicle in early 1991. Until early last year, when a volunteer group called Adventures With Purpose used sonar to locate her car in Lake Tawakoni. They found human remains last October. Parker’s children announced in late May that authorities matched the remains to family D-N-A. Now the Hunt County Sheriff’s Office is closing its missing person case. It says the University of North Texas Health Science Center for Human Identification...
Jun 08, 2022•1 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Early last year, divers pulled wreckage from a 1980 Buick Skylark out of Lake Tawakoni. They returned last fall and discovered human remains under the debris. Those remains have now been matched to Carey Mae Parker — a young northeast Texas mother-of-three who went missing along with her Buick in 1991. Parker’s daughter Brandy Hathcock confirmed yesterday (Tuesday) that investigators used D-N-A to identify the remains, presumed to be Parker’s. “She’s coming home!” Hathcock wrote in a Facebook po...
May 25, 2022•1 min•Season 1Ep. 16
The Oregon-based group Adventures With Purpose located parts of Carey Mae Parker’s car during its first search at Lake Tawakoni in February. On Friday, the group might have found remains of Carey Mae Parker herself. Founder Jared Leisek confirmed late Friday that his team found human remains in a debris pile from Parker’s car near a causeway on the lake’s Waco Bay. The dive group located Parker’s 1980 Buick Skylark in February and brought parts of it to the surface. Later searches by Department ...
Oct 16, 2021•1 min
It was around this time of year in 1991 when Carey Mae Parker seemed to disappear without a trace from southern Hunt County. Until three weeks ago — when a private search group located Parker’s car upside down in a bay north of her family’s home. Authorities lifted most of the 1980 Buick Skylark out of the water later the same day. This week, forensic divers from the Texas Department of Public Safety and others returned to Waco Bay to search for more submerged evidence. After marking spots Monda...
Feb 25, 2021•2 min
From a Hunt County Sheriff's Office press release dated February 5, 2021: "On February 4, 2021 at approximately 5:43 pm, the Hunt County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch received a call from a search and recovery team advising they had located a vehicle in Lake Tawakoni near the causeway on FM 751. Hunt County Sheriff Terry Jones responded with patrol units and the Criminal Investigation Division to learn the search and recovery team were on the lake using sonar equipment when they discovered a vehicle...
Feb 06, 2021•2 min
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Jul 24, 2019•41 min
On Thursday, Feb. 21, 1991, a Quinlan police officer arrested Carey Mae Parker on a warrant for traffic offenses. Here's what happened next.
Jul 09, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Law enforcement officials in the Lake Tawakoni area had a reputation for corruption and criminality -- much of it deserved -- throughout the 1990s. Police officers in south Hunt County say they're still picking up the pieces.
Jun 20, 2019•3 min
In the latest search for Carey Mae Parker, sheriff's deputies use ground-penetrating radar and cadaver dogs to scan properties in northeast Texas.
Jun 01, 2019•20 min
Sgt. Jeff Haines of the Hunt Co. Sheriff’s Office said searchers used cadaver dogs and ground penetrating radar on three adjacent properties as part of the investigation into Parker's 1991 disappearance from the area of Quinlan, TX. Haines declined to elaborate on any results of the day's efforts before notifying Parker's family about the searches. But the detective did confirm the search areas included properties that belonged in the past to the family of Cody Songer, a man Parker dated before ...
May 24, 2019•2 min
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May 09, 2019•4 min
The constable Carey Mae Parker 's father says he contacted in 1991 had enemies within local law enforcement and the courts.
Mar 22, 2019•32 min•Season 1Ep. 14
An inmate in a Texas prison looks back on an alarming conversation he had with Carey Mae Parker 's ex-boyfriend Cody.
Feb 22, 2019•57 min
Dogs trained to detect human remains have resumed searches near the former home of a woman missing since 1991, a law enforcement official said Monday.
Feb 21, 2019•1 min
An inmate in a Texas prison can't shake some of the things Carey Mae Parker 's ex-boyfriend Cody said while on the run in Oklahoma.
Feb 16, 2019•35 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Canine units from across the country descend on Lake Tawakoni's Waco Bay Estate subdivision in the first search of its kind for Carey Mae Parker .
Jan 25, 2019•20 min
Authorities in northeast Texas launched a day-long search Saturday of properties once connected to a woman who vanished nearly three decades ago.
Jan 23, 2019•4 min
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Dec 27, 2018•38 min
The ex-boyfriend of Carey Mae Parker on their tumultuous relationship, new insights into an infamous party and a theory that Carey is alive.
Dec 21, 2018•37 min•Season 1Ep. 12
The detective in charge of investigating Carey Mae Parker 's disappearance offers his perspective on the cold case he took over in 2013.
Dec 07, 2018•56 min
In July 2017, KETR approached the Hunt Co. Sheriff's Office to discuss Carey Mae Parker 's disappearance. It didn't go well.
Nov 30, 2018•41 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Carey Mae Parker 's brother and sister explore properties connected to some of the rumors about their sister's disappearance and the events that followed.
Nov 01, 2018•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Missing people can't advocate for themselves. So, a new group in northeast Texas is aiming to become their voice.
Oct 11, 2018•2 min
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Sep 27, 2018•34 min
The mother of Sarah Elizabeth Kinslow describes the weeks following her daughter's disapperance and the impact it had on her family.
Sep 20, 2018•1 hr
Carey Mae Parker isn't the only missing person with ties to Lake Tawakoni.
Sep 13, 2018•45 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Carey Mae Parker 's son reveals that Carey's father Howard admitted to killing someone decades earlier in a foreign country.
Aug 23, 2018•52 min•Season 1Ep. 8
A Hunt County detective identifies a person of interest in Carey Mae Parker 's disappearance: Her dad.
Aug 09, 2018•33 min•Season 1Ep. 7
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Jul 26, 2018•41 min
In his first interview with the detective investigating Carey Mae Parker 's disappearance, Cody recounts his version of the party in Hawk Cove.
Jul 19, 2018•36 min•Season 1Ep. 6
