Bringing Jay Home
Dateline NBC
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🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on Dateline. |
| 0:02.0 | Jay's number one thing was people will know my name. |
| 0:05.0 | People will know me. |
| 0:06.0 | Jay Lee was one in a million at Ole Miss. |
| 0:10.0 | He was regularly on social media. |
| 0:12.0 | Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok. |
| 0:14.0 | All of a sudden that stopped. |
| 0:16.0 | We got the call from the University Police Department about, |
| 0:20.0 | hey, Jay Lee's missing. |
| 0:21.6 | I didn't know what could have happened to him. |
| 0:23.6 | We start looking at who he's talking to on Snapchat. |
| 0:25.6 | We see this name, Red Eye 24. |
| 0:28.6 | What was it about those exchanges? |
| 0:30.6 | It seemed like Jay Lee was upset. |
| 0:32.6 | If you mess with those men, something bad could happen to you. |
| 0:36.6 | Because of the secret, he has it all to lose. |
| 0:40.7 | It's in the middle of the summer here in Mississippi. Somebody wearing a hoodie caught our eye. |
| 0:44.9 | He looks at the trash can big enough to put a body in. Lord, what type of punishment is this? |
| 0:50.8 | It's like emotional torture. This humble, loving family, they were going to get everything that we had. |
| 0:56.0 | We started shifting through decaying leaves, and there was a piece of jewelry. |
| 1:02.0 | That was the only piece that we didn't have. |
| 1:04.0 | Now we've got it. |
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