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On a rainy morning in October 2023, a police officer in a small Arkansas town approached a parked SUV to check on a family inside.

In the passenger seat, a tired mother in a red T-shirt smiled politely as she folded baby clothes. Her toddler climbed between the seats. A baby cried in the back. Her boyfriend was in the driver's seat.

She told the officer they were just passing through - trying to get back to Wyoming.

That officer would become the last confirmed person to ever see Katheryn “Katie” Ferguson alive.

Days later, her boyfriend would continue the trip without her.

And when investigators finally searched the vehicle they had been traveling in, they found something chilling — blood, bullet holes, and a missing passenger seat.

Katie Ferguson has never been seen again.

Read our blog for Katie - https://truecrimesocietyblog.com/2026/03/08/katie-ferguson-vanished-on-a-road-trip/

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