Missing
Kristie Annette Moon
Moon, approximately 1999
Date and time person was reported missing : 10/27/1999
Missing location (approx) :
Parsons, Tennessee
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 10/06/1973 (47)
Age at the time of disappearance: 26 years old
Height / Weight : 5'4, 115 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A brown button-down shirt, tan pants, a brown belt, and brown boots.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Moon has freckles. Some Age at the time of disappearance: ncies refer to her by her maiden name, Kristie Baugus.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Moon was last seen by her boyfriend, Michael Pearcy, on October 27, 1999. He claimed he dropped her off at her mother's home in Parsons, Tennessee, but her mother said she never arrived. She left all her belongings behind, including her purse, clothes and driver's license, and has never been heard from again.
Shortly before her disappearance, Moon had moved with her two children out of Pearcy's Decaturville, Tennessee home and back in with her mother. She had no car and was unemployed; her sole source of income was weekly child support checks, and the last one issued in October was never cashed. It wasn't uncharacteristic of her to drop out of sight for a few days, but she never stayed gone for very long and was never out of touch with family members.
Pearcy was killed on November 26, less than a month after Moon's disappearance; he opened fire on a Parsons police officer during a routine traffic stop and was shot to death by the officer's partner. At the time of his death, he was wanted for questioning in the death of a Decaturville man, and he is also the main suspect in Moon's disappearance.
Moon was involved with drugs in 1999; her daughter describes her as a good person who got mixed up with the wrong people. In spite of the problems in her life, she was a loving parent to her two children. Because of her substance use, her children, who were Age at the time of disappearance: d eight and one at the time of her disappearance, were often in the care of relatives. Her disappearance remains unsolved.
Other information and links : ncy
Decatur County Sheriff's Department
731-852-3703
September 2021 updates and sources
Child Protection Education of America
WSMV-TV
The Tennessean
WBBJ 7
The Jackson Sun
Facebook pageheader for Kristie Moon
October 12, 2004. June 2, 2020; two pictures added, Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.
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