MO MO - Tammy Surdam, 12, St Charles County, 1 Aug 1979

[Otterly]

Maybe it was someone whom they found in the mid 80's possible orange socks, it had to be someone tall in TX. EDJD came along in 1991 so don't believe that is whom she was compared to.

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I doubt it was Orange Socks if the person they compared it to was found in the Mid 80's since Orange Socks was found on Halloween 1979.

 

[folieadeuxnola]

Gotcha... Thank you have briefly read about those doe's my memory is not as good as it use to be


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[aThousandYearsWide]

This young girl's case called out to me for many reasons. She was only 12 years old and already a chronic runaway, (where would a 12 year old go?) and her case-file states she started getting into trouble in 1977 when she was 10/11!

I wonder what she would do with her older friends that were into drugs/alcohol and if they were actually her friends to begin with. I recently watched the 1983 documentary Streetwise by Martin Bell. It shows the lives of underage street kids, even one that would eventually be a Green River Killer victim. Bell's wife Mary Ellen Mark was a photographer and has this picture from 1990 that I am also reminded of. It's called Amanda and her Cousin Amy and depicts a 9 year old girl smoking in a kiddie pool wearing heavy makeup. I'm not trying to get off topic but this is what this case reminded me of. In children that try to act more grown up you still see some innocence in them.

In Tammy's case, I hope she wasn't taken advantage of due to her age. Streetwise has a 14 year old prostitute who started out as a child just trying to get away from her mother's alcoholism. She met some older kids that she thought were her friends, and they drugged her and raped her, and that's how her prostitution started at 13.

 

[LucyOso]

Was she looked at for Walker Doe?

 

[CastlesBurning]

12 seems so young to b a chronic runaway.

What's more, it states that she started doing this in 1977 - when she was TEN.

You really have to wonder what was going on at home to make a child that young feel the only option was to keep running.

 

[folieadeuxnola]

Bumping for Tammy

 

[Diavola]

Bumping for Tammy.
She's been missing for 42 years.

 

[TheArtfulDetective]

Tammy Rose Surdam​

Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: August 1, 1979
Location Last Seen: St. Charles, St. Charles County, Missouri

Description:

• Date of Birth: November 8, 1966
• Age: 12 years old
• Race: White/Caucasian
• Gender: Female
• Height: 5' 10" (70 inches)
• Weight: 130 lbs
• Hair Color: Blonde
• Eye Color: Blue
• Nickname/Alias: Unknown
• Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown
• Clothing & Personal Items: Unknown
• Identifiers: DNA available

Circumstances of Disappearance:
Tammy was last seen at the Youth in Need shelter in the 500 block of Jefferson Street in St. Charles, Missouri on August 1, 1979. She had stayed there for only two days before she disappeared and has never been heard from again.

Tammy was a chronic runaway who began getting in trouble in 1977, after her family moved across town. She began spending time with teenagers who drank and used drugs, and her family said she was too trusting and would have gotten into a stranger's vehicle. She was close to her father, however, and didn't get in touch with her family after her father died in 1988.

Because she was a chronic runaway, Tammy's family wasn't initially concerned by her absence. However, after years passed without them hearing from her, they got worried and filed a missing persons report.

Nathan D. "Danny" Williams is a suspect in Tammy's disappearance and in the 1989 abduction and presumed murder of thirteen-year-old Gina Brooks, whose body was never found. He and another man, Timothy R. Bellew, were charged with Gina's murder in 1999.

The murder charge against Bellew was subsequently dropped for lack of evidence, and in 2003, the murder charge against Williams was also dropped, but he remained in prison on unrelated rape conviction. He's still the prime suspect in Gina's disappearance.

Williams reportedly told two witnesses he'd abducted a twelve-year-old girl off the street near a college in St. Charles in the late 1970s, raped her, stabbed her to death and buried her body. This would match the circumstances of Tammy's disappearance; she's the only child that age who disappeared from St. Charles during the relevant time period and was never found, and the shelter she was staying in was just four blocks from Linwood College.

There is no hard evidence tying him to Tammy's case. her disappearance remains unsolved and her whereabouts remain unknown.

Investigators:

• St. Charles City Police Department: (636) 949-3309
  Reference Case#: 85-811

• Hanover Park Police Department (630) 823-5500
  Reference Case#: Not available

NamUs Case Number: MP34986
NCIC Case Number: Not available

Tammy Rose Surdam – The Charley Project
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
3648DFMO - Tammy Rose Surdam

 

[chaddylex]

Tammy's NamUs Profile was modified today, 12/19/22.
She currently has 5 rule outs
12 years old and being a runaway is so scary.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

UP17017
01/01/2017
St. Charles
MO
UP2813

07/10/1991
Union
AR

UP12683
06/06/2014
Newport News
VA

UP6796
11/18/1985
Alleghany
VA

UP6150
11/07/1998
Stafford
VA

 

[TwinkieDefense]

Dec 19, 2023 article

New leads sought in 1979 disappearance of 13-year-old St. Charles girl

April Fowler is the last living immediate relative of 13-year-old Tammy Surdam, who went missing on Aug. 11, 1979.

www.ky3.com

[…]

Fowler said her baby sister frequently ran away but always returned after a period of time. And she said there was nothing about their home life that would lead her to believe that Surdam would leave and never have contact again with anyone in the family.

[…]

Hoselton said Surdam called the youth facility the next day and said she was with friends in the Powell Terrace neighborhood and that she was fine. And he said through their investigation, detectives have knowledge that the 13-year-old was in Cabool, Missouri, east of Springfield during a period after she left the facility.

[…]

Anyone who has information about the disappearance of Tammy Surdam is asked to call the St. Charles Police Department at 636-949-3300.

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[imstilla.grandma]

Police in St. Charles are seeking the public’s help in cracking a cold case involving a missing 13-year-old girl who disappeared in August 1979 and was in the Cabool area at one time.

Tammy Surdam vanished after leaving a youth facility on Jefferson Avenue called “Youth in Need.” She checked out, as teen residents were allowed to do, but didn’t return before curfew. The next day she was declared missing.

Detective Sgt. Shawn Hoselton said Surdam called the youth facility the next day and said she was with friends in the Powell Terrace neighborhood and she was fine. Through their investigation, detectives know that the girl was in Cabool during a period after she disappeared from St. Charles.

“The St. Charles Police Department is determined to bring resolution to any open cases,” Hoselton said. “We’re here for the families and will never stop.”

Police seek clues to missing girl who was in this area at one time

Authorities said a St. Charles cold case has ties to the Cabool area.

houstonherald.com

 

[Jfu72]

I feel like there's a possibility Tammy could be 1979 Miami-Dade Jane Doe (NamUs #UP7514). I know it's been considered but I would like to see a comparison.

 

[chaddylex]

An age progression was added to Tammy's Missing and Exploited Poster
Have you seen this child? Tammy Rose Surdam

 

[chaddylex]

Tammy's NamUs profile was modified today, 12/5/24, another rule out/exclusion was added.
Tammy now has 6 rule outs/exclusions