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'A very strange case': Search continues for missing Texas woman after Atchafalaya Basin Bridge crash
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BATON ROUGE — Wednesday marks one week since 22-year-old Texas woman Christin Munn-Holliday vanished from a Louisiana bridge, prompting an ongoing multi-agency search.
Louisiana State Police say Munn-Holliday was last seen early Wednesday morning following a two-car crash on the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge near the Whiskey Bay exit. When state troopers and Iberville Parish deputies arrived, they found one occupied vehicle and a second empty car belonging to Munn-Holliday.
Witnesses reported seeing her walk away from the scene, which spans 18 miles of remote bayous and swamps.
"It's a very strange case," Stassi said. "We don't know if she was picked up, we don't know if she walked away, we don't have any idea where she went that night or where she is today."
Investigators believe Munn-Holliday was traveling to Baton Rouge. Her cell phone last pinged at the crash site, and her disappearance is currently being handled as a missing person case.
"We also are leaving open the options that she was picked up, could have been kidnapped," said Stassi.
Munn-Holliday’s family traveled from the Houston area to help search for the young mother of a 4-year-old son, known by loved ones as "Chrissy."
"She's a caring mother, a great daughter, she loves her parents, she loves us to death, she's her mom's best friend, she's my best friend," Christin's father Robert Munn said.
Munn believes his daughter was targeted and picked up for unknown reasons. The family says video from traffic cameras shows their daughter driving fast on the bridge; they believe someone was chasing their daughter on I-10.
"It wasn't random," said Munn. "Either someone took her or did something else to her."
The family has offered a $20,000 reward for their daughter's safe return. Anyone with information should contact Crime Stoppers.
"Why was she on the bridge? I don't know," said Munn. "For her to not be there when the police arrive says a lot because you can't walk that bridge without being seen."
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