{"id":58191,"date":"2018-02-07T04:36:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T04:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=58191"},"modified":"2018-02-07T04:36:59","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T04:36:59","slug":"missing-texas-teen-dies-months-after-being-reunited-with-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/missing-texas-teen-dies-months-after-being-reunited-with-family.html","title":{"rendered":"Missing Texas Teen Dies Months After Being Reunited With Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Missing Texas Teen Dies Months After Being Reunited With Family<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">A Texas teen who sparked a police investigation after she reportedly ran away with a suspected \u201cinternet predator\u201d she met on Snapchat has died two months after being reunited with her family, her mother said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Heaven Ray Cox, 15, \u201cleft us to be with Jesus,\u201d her mother Tammy Day Cox wrote on Facebook Saturday \u2013 asking people to \u201cstop and pray\u201d for her daughter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Heaven vanished from the family\u2019s home in Orange County, Texas on Nov. 26, but was found five days later at the home of a relative of a someone she knew, the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office said. She was reunited with her family on December 1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">While the family had initially claimed that Heaven was likely lured away by an \u201cinternet predator\u201d she met through Snapchat, the police believe that she ran away on her own and have not confirmed that a \u201cpredator\u201d of any kind was involved in her brief disappearance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">After her disappearance last year Heaven\u2019s mother revealed the teen suffered from mental illness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Tuesday, Tammy Day Cox announced that family-only services for Heaven will be Friday at Faith United Church.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Heaven\u2019s cause of death has not been revealed and authorities haven\u2019t commented.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/time.com\/5135942\/missing-teen-heaven-ray-cox-dies\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/missing-texas-teen-dies-months-after-being-reunited-with-family.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missing Texas Teen Dies Months After Being Reunited With Family A Texas teen who sparked a police investigation after she reportedly ran away with a suspected \u201cinternet predator\u201d she met on Snapchat has died two months after being reunited with her family, her mother said. 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