Woman remembers day childhood friend Christy Luna disappeared

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) — Three decades after her disappearance the story of an 8-year-old Greenacres girl, Christy Luna will take over the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office social media channels.

In a nationwide effort to find out what happened to Christy, PBSO will hand their social media over to her. She will share her story as it happened, at exactly the time it happened vicariously through the Sheriff’s Office social media.

Jennifer Sampson said she remembers the day Christy vanished like it was yesterday.

“I just remember going to sleep and shortly thereafter hearing a frantic banging on the door.” Sampson said. “We opened it up to find Jenny and Larry which were her parents, and they were frantic looking for Christy and asking if she was with us. We were together pretty much night and day so it made a lot of sense that she would be there. She wasn’t and that’s when we all realized that she was truly missing.”

Sampson grew up with Christy in Greenacres.

It was the afternoon of May 27th when Christy went around the block from her Broward Avenue home to a corner store to buy cat food. She never came home.

According to Sampson Christy’s disappearance scarred her for life.

“You never even went to the grocery store or were out in public, or even just walked down the street without knowing that there was probably evil lurking,” Sampson said. “You learned that evil was absolutely in your neighborhood.”

The Sheriff’s office is asking you to join them starting Friday, May 26 through Monday, May 28 on their Facebook and Twitter to hear Christy’s story.