China was last seen at a beauty salon at Jackson Heights Plaza in her hometown of Christiana, Tennessee on October 19, 1999. She told her mother she planned to get gas for her black four-door 1999 Mazda Protege with tinted windows and the Tennessee license plate number 784PGX, and then go home. When China's mother arrived home later that day, her daughter was not there. Videon has never been heard from again.

Authorities initially believed China left of her own accord with an adult male, but now foul play is suspected in her case. In June 2000, her car was found abandoned at an apartment complex in south Nashville, Tennessee. Investigators stated that it looked as if the vehicle had been there for a long time. Some of China's personal property was inside.

China was a junior at Riverdale High School at the time of her disappearance, and had a job at the Bi-Lo grocery store. in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Her case remains unsolved.