Hey, it's Josh Mankiewicz with a preview of Dateline: Missing in America. In our podcast's 5th season, we share 6 new unsolved mysteries, and we hope someone listening might have a clue that could help crack one of these cases. Could that someone be you? Here's Dateline: Missing in America. On June 16th, 2023, the forecast for Temple, Texas was hot and muggy. The high would hit 103 degrees. 22-year-old Hayley Murphy started her day as she often did, on the phone with her mom, Becky Mitchell.
We talked probably 45 minutes while I got ready for work. She told me about her going to go to her ex-boyfriend's yacht party.
Later that day, Haley asked her sister Harley Murphy to help her pack for that weekend getaway. She wanted you to pick out some outfits for her.
Yeah, she has so many clothes. She was like, I have like 30 bathing suits and I need to just pick 3. Can you help?
Nothing about that day seemed unusual to Haley's family. They were close.
Haley loved family. She was very protective of the people that she cared about.
One person had a special place in Haley's heart, her 2-year-old son, JJ. Brittany Ketchum is Haley's best friend.
I had never seen like a light in her eyes the way I saw when she was found out she was pregnant with JJ.
No one in Haley's circle old enough to remember that June day knew they were making their final memories with Haley.
She said bye to her son and she said bye to me and then she got in the car and we left.
Some of those memories are excruciating. Are you feeling some guilt about this?
Yeah, I feel a lot of guilt.
It turns out Haley, devoted mother, daughter, sister, friend had a dangerous secret, and her family believes it was deadly. That's a terrible story.
Sounds like a movie, not real life.
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Hey Dateline fans, here's a special preview of the next episode of Dateline: Missing in America Season 5. In "Haleigh's Secret," Josh Mankiewicz reports on the disappearance of 22-year-old Army veteran and mother Haleigh Murphy, who was last seen leaving a bar in Round Rock, Texas with a male friend on June 16, 2023. Her family has not heard from her since that night. Listen to the full episode in the 'Dateline: Missing in America' feed - something you hear might jog a memory that could help authorities find Haleigh.
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