It was just before dawn on August 12th, 1992, when thirty-six year old Pamela June Ray pulled into a motel parking lot in Panama City Beach, Florida. Her two young children were asleep in the backseat, unaware their lives were about to change forever.
Pamela was seen speaking with a man near the motel pool. She locked the car, left her children inside, and walked away with him into the early morning darkness. Minutes later, someone heard a scream. By the time the sun came up, Pamela was gone - and she has never been seen again.
Who was the man she followed? What happened in those missing minutes? And why, more than three decades later, does her disappearance remain one of Florida’s most haunting mysteries?
Listen as we dive into Florida, the case of Pamela June Ray, and how to stay alive on vacation.
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