--- description: Heaven Ray Cox, 15, was reunited with her family on Dec. 1 after she reportedly ran away with someone she met on Snapchat. title: Missing Texas Teen Dies Months After Being Reunited With Family image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc7ac3df38cf77d0a/6988fad2929fad1883bef7ed/heaven-ray-cox.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Crime](/tag/crime/) ## Crime Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Missing Texas Teen Dies Months After Being Reunited With Family by [Emily Price](/author/emily-price/) ## Emily Price Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 6, 2018 9:48 PM CUT  Heaven Ray Cox, 15, was reported to have run away with a man she met on social media in November Heaven Ray Cox, 15, was reported to have run away with a man she met on social media in NovemberOrange County, Texas, Sheriff's Office by [Emily Price](/author/emily-price/) ## Emily Price Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 6, 2018 9:48 PM CUT A Texas teen who sparked a police investigation after she reportedly ran away with a suspected “internet predator” she met on Snapchat has died two months after being reunited with her family, her mother said. Heaven Ray Cox, 15, “left us to be with Jesus,” her mother Tammy Day Cox wrote on Facebook Saturday – asking people to “stop and pray” for her daughter. Heaven vanished from the family’s home in Orange County, Texas on Nov. 26, but was [found five days later](http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/30/missing-texas-teen-heaven-ray-cox-found-safe.html "undefined") at the home of a relative of a someone she knew, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said. She was reunited with her family on December 1. While the family had initially claimed that Heaven was likely lured away by an “internet predator” she met through Snapchat, the police believe that she ran away on her own and have not confirmed that a “predator” of any kind was involved in her brief disappearance. After her disappearance last year Heaven’s mother revealed the teen suffered from mental illness. Tuesday, Tammy Day Cox announced that family-only services for Heaven will be Friday at Faith United Church. Heaven’s cause of death has not been revealed and authorities haven’t commented. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5135942/missing-teen-heaven-ray-cox-dies/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5135942/missing-teen-heaven-ray-cox-dies/"},"headline":"Missing Texas Teen Dies Months After Being Reunited With Family","datePublished":"2018-02-06T21:48:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T19:10:23.369Z","description":"Heaven Ray Cox was 15","url":"https://time.com/5135942/missing-teen-heaven-ray-cox-dies/","keywords":["Crime","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc7ac3df38cf77d0a/6988fad2929fad1883bef7ed/heaven-ray-cox.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Emily Price","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/emily-price/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc7ac3df38cf77d0a/6988fad2929fad1883bef7ed/heaven-ray-cox.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Heaven Ray Cox","caption":"Heaven Ray Cox","creditText":"Orange County, Texas, Sheriff's Office","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/crime/","name":"Crime"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5135942/missing-teen-heaven-ray-cox-dies/","name":"Missing Texas Teen Dies Months After Being Reunited With Family"}}]}] ```