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In the Texas High Plains, winter nights carry a kind of weight. The flatlands stretch out in every direction.

Endless short grass prairies, long stretches of highway, small towns clinging to the edges of Lubbock's reach.

Darkness

On one such evening in 2013, a 30-year-old woman left her home in the tiny town of Smyre.

She was heading to Lubbock to see a friend, but she never made it. Later, her car would

be found. Her phone, used only one more time that night, vanished, and the man last seen

with the woman had driven her car after she disappeared. From the beginning, investigators believed he knew more than he admitted, and so did the

woman's family.

Twelve years later, those beliefs have not changed.

You're listening to Gone Cold, Texas True Crime.

I'm Vincent, and this is the disappearance of Megan Jane-Anne-Anne-Hembray. On February 26, 2013,

30-year-old Megan Hembray left her Smyr, Texas home at around 6.30 p.m.

It was bitterly cold and snowing.

On the way to her car, she left a trail of breath.

Megan climbed into her red two-door 1999 Saturn and turned the key in the ignition, her destination, a friend's house in Lubbock.

It was a relatively quick trip. The drive was 30 minutes tops. She never arrived. It wasn't like her. Family quickly

grew concerned. Megan was reported missing. Cell records were subpoenaed and showed that Megan's

phone pinged for a while after she drove off that night. It showed she left Smyre, but then it stopped.

One call was placed from her phone before it went dark. Within days, the family's fears began to take

shape. On March 1, 2013, just three days after she vanished, it was reported.

Investigators discovered her red Saturn in the parking lot of an apartment complex in West Lubbock.

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