EMERGENCY EPISODE: Help Find Missing Teen Thomas Medlin | Have A Seat

Have A Seat with Chris Hansen

Chris Hansen

True Crime

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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On this urgent, special episode of Have a Seat with Chris Hansen, Chris is joined by Eva Yan, mother of Thomas Medlin who’s been missing since January 9th. 15-year-old Thomas of Long Island was seen on CCTV footage at Grand Central Station at 5:30p that same day, his cell phone was later found in lower Manhattan. The Suffolk Police Department believes that Thomas went into the city to meet someone he had been communicating with on the gaming platform Roblox, which according to his mother, is completely out of character for the intelligent and talented teen. Chris and Eva urge everyone to be on the lookout for Thomas, share his photo across social media, and contact the Suffolk Police Department if you have any information. https://suffolkpd.org/Suffolk Police Department Fourth Squad Detective 631-854-8452 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	AI is incredible. They can teach you how to fry an egg and even write a poem, pirate style.
0:07.0	But it knows nothing about your work. Slackbot is different. It doesn't just know the facts.
0:14.0	It knows your schedule. It can turn a brainstorm into a brief and it doesn't need to be taught.
0:20.0	Because Slackbot isn't just another
0:22.4	AI. It's AI that knows your work as well as you do there's an important breaking story that you all need to know about.
0:49.2	As you know, I've talked about this many times here and we've interviewed guests about this topic.
0:53.8	We are investigating the gaming platform Roblox. You can't. I've talked about this many times here and we've interviewed guests about this topic.
1:01.4	We are investigating the gaming platform Roblox because of the hundreds and actually thousands of cases,
1:06.3	tens of thousands of cases we've come across where young people have been groomed on the platform and sometimes abused by predators.
1:08.7	There's a case developing in New York out on Long Island and Suffolk
1:12.2	County that we need your help is. A young man, 15-year-old Thomas Medlin, has been missing
1:20.2	since January 9th after having a discussion on Roblox with someone after telling people in his
1:25.9	circle of friends that he was going to meet this person that he initially met on Roblox with someone after telling people in his circle of friends that he was going to meet this
1:27.8	person that he initially met on Roblox. His family is, as you can imagine, beside themselves.
1:35.8	And it's important that we and you as my viewers and my team do everything we can to help in this
1:43.1	situation.
1:51.0	Eva Yan is Thomas' mother, and she's kind enough, brave enough to sit with me now.
1:53.2	Eva, thank you for joining me here and having a seat.
1:55.4	Thank you for having me, Chris. What is the latest?
1:56.5	What do we know about where Thomas might be and where he was last seen?
2:01.6	Bring me up to speed here.
2:03.9	Based on the latest update this week, Thomas was still information from Friday today.
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