https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Collins
At the time of her death in 1986, Christy Lynn Floyd was just 16 years old.
In August 2020, police identified Christy as Chesterfield County Jane Doe, whose body was found on August 7, 1986 in Richmond, Virginia.
Born around 1970, Christy and her older sister Kim grew up together in a foster home in Lexington, Virginia. As the two grew up into young teenagers, they became incredibly close but strived desperately to know their biological mother. Determined, the two sisters one day ran away from their foster home, returning to live with their mom in Richmond.
By all accounts, Christy settled into her new home well. She was kind, sweet, and quiet, and reportedly had a love for animals. In her free time, she could often be found dancing the night away with her sister at a popular teenage hang out spot, The Cellar Door, playing basketball for her high school team, and working at the local Hardee’s to earn some extra cash.
Two weeks before her disappearance in June 1986, 16-year-old Christy began dating an 18-year-old young man that she had met while working at Hardee’s. The couple evidently fell hard and fast for each other, and Christy ran away from home one night to stay in a hotel with her boyfriend. Her mother immediately realized Christy was missing, so she called the boyfriend’s family to demand that Christy come home or else she would press statutory rape charges since her daughter was a minor.
Christy complied and returned home the next morning, but she wouldn’t be there for long. Shortly after Christy came home, her mother fell asleep and her sister left to get food. When Kim returned, she found Christy gone, and the home’s back door and alley gate left open.
Christy’s mother and sister immediately filed a missing person’s report, but felt that police never took their claim seriously. Sadly, two months later on August 7, 1986, workers at a local landfill found the remains that would eventually be identified as Christy while unloading trash collected from a Richmond garbage dumpster. Prior to disposing of her, police believe that Christy’s killer kept her remains in a refrigerator or semi-air tight container to delay decomposition.
After remaining a Jane Doe for decades, police identified Chesterfield County Jane Doe as Christy in 2020. For years, Kim relentlessly searched for her sister, putting Christy’s face on milk cartons, passing out missing person’s flyers, and submitting her sister’s information to the popular television show “America
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