TN TN - Tabitha Tuders, 13, Nashville, 29 Apr 2003

[formerlyme]

Brought here after seeing someone claiming to be a childhood friend using her social media to draw attention to the case. Just read all the way through. So sad.

 

[Unalienable Rights]

Family of teen missing 20 years posed as call girl clients in bid to find her

Tabitha Tuders went missing in 2003 and more than 20 years on, her disappearance still remains a mystery, despite multiple leads alleging she might have been drawn into sex work

www.themirror.com

Sept 7, 2024

Tabitha Tuders' family has revealed they once posed as potential customers of a call girl in a desperate attempt to locate the missing woman.

Jamie Pulley has opened up on the heartbreak caused by her sister's disappearance and explained the lengths her family went to while trying to find her. Tabitha was 13 years old when she vanished on the morning of April 29, 2003, in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Over the years, there have been many claims, including some tips that Tabitha had become a sex worker. This claim brought the family to Las Vegas 10 years ago, sister Jamie revealed, after a private investigator hired to help them followed the lead of a woman resembling Tabatha who was working as a call girl.

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Nashville PD Homicide Detective Steven Jolley said in February 2020 that the force had received "many tips" alleging that Tabitha might have been drawn into sex work. But despite searching a seven-acre property connected with the leads, nothing was found.

More in linked article.

 

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Tabitha has one new exclusion. Total is now 7.

 

[Sweetluv]

Missing since April 29, 2003!

 

[Danaya]

Sounds like an opportunistic stranger abduction.

 

[snarast]

Nothing for all these years. Poor family.

 

[Mrs.Stade143]

I came across her story last night. And idk y but I just started to cry for this poor girl... They need too look at ppl in the neighborhood.. Really start looking for her. Its been too long.

 

[Mrs.Stade143]

I think a case is very tough to solve when you cannot even come up with any new ideas to help solve it.

One thing I am starting to be very skeptical of is the eyewitness statements that Tabitha Tuders got into a vehicle. The reason is that I read that people have described the car as anything between a Volkswagen Bug and a Ford Mustang. One thing I would like to point out is that walking on Boscobel Street between 14th and 15th streets where Tabitha Tuders disappeared requires walking on the road. There is no sidewalk. I wonder sometimes if this was some type of optical illusion with Tabitha Tuders walking next to vehicles on the way to the bus stop at 15th Street?

I can only offer what I might have done back in 2003 in hindsight. Here is the list:

1. Get a stopwatch and measure how long it takes to walk between 14th and 15th street along Boscobel Street.

2. Stand in the same place as the kids at 15th street bus stop at the same time of day and see how the sun affects your vision(if it was a sunny day).

3. Ask if Tabitha Tuders had any major assignments or tests due on April 29th. A good student would probably not pick that day to miss school.

4. Go to her middle school and look through all of her textbooks, especially the front and back covers, to see if maybe there is some type of notation that might explain the "MTL" initials note. Check her desk and locker.

5. Get pet registrations for people who live along Boscobel Street between 14th and 15th streets. Maybe she was lured into a home along the street by a pet?

6. Make a list of the people along Tabitha Tuders route to school that have porches? Talk to these people. Maybe Tabitha Tuders stopped to talk to one of these people? I know it is unlikely since she had a bus to catch.

7. See if the bus driver remembers anything or has any video capturing the houses along Boscobel before and after the date of the abduction, April 29th, 2003.

8. Make a video for at least 3 straight Tuesdays to capture what the area looked like in April 2003 because you never know how long it will take to solve a missing person's case. Things change and having a history of what things looked like at the time is important.

9. Check driveways in the area to see if anyone might have had some type of classic or racing car. Maybe this started a conversation?

I doubt anyone thought this case would go on for this long. I hope Tabitha Tuders's parents get some type of answer as to what happened to her the morning of April 29th, 2003.

THIS.... I also feel it was someone in the neighborhood.. Someone who saw her everyday.... I agree.. they need to do more.... someone on those blocks knows something..

 

[somequestions]

THIS.... I also feel it was someone in the neighborhood.. Someone who saw her everyday.... I agree.. they need to do more.... someone on those blocks knows something..

In a case like this, there is only so much information to follow. I do not think the police have much more of an idea about who abducted Tabitha Tuders than we do. I also think it was unfortunate police were not able to get the internet chat room information of whoever she was communicating with online, but that is not their fault. It does not sound like Tabitha had a personal computer since her internet activity took place at the local library.

According to the story, Tabitha Tuders walked to the first bus stop at 14th and Boscobel Street between 7:50 and 8 am. Since 14th street appears to be busier, her mother did not want her waiting at that intersection alone if there were no other students waiting there to get on the bus. Then she was to walk across 14th street down Boscobel to the other school bus stop at the intersection of 15th and Boscobel Street. Halfway down Boscobel between 14th and 15th streets a car pulled up and she got inside. This is the story.

It does not appear that it is a long walk from where Tabitha Tuders lived on Lillian Street to where her first bus stop was at 14th and Boscobel. If it was someone who lived in a residence along the route she walked to the bus stops, then the police must have missed it because it appears to be a very short walk. I think they probably would have questioned residents along her walking route.

What would cause a 13-year-old girl to get lured into a house? I think a pet could be one possibility, but I also think a fancy sports car in the garage could be another. In the Disappeared episode about the case, they said the family liked to go to the racetrack.

It could be someone she met in a chat room, but the problem with that theory is in order for the abductor to know who she is, they would probably ask for her picture. The abduction happened on a Tuesday so maybe this person was unemployed living alone with a pet or liked automobiles. In order to be able to narrow down the time frame they would need to be outside on the porch or looking out the window each day when Tabitha passed by.

I can understand why the main theory is a random car with a stranger pulled up and offered her ride, probably to school. People say she would not get into a car with a random stranger. It is hard to understand what a 13-year-old would do in this situation. If she was abducted into a car, once the car leaves, it is anybody's guess as to where it went next. But one thing I believe is this: If Tabitha Tuders does not know which bus stop she is going to be picked up from that day, how is she going to be able to tell her abductor? Would she really tell her abductor in the car that if she leaves the one bus stop to pick up her before she gets to the next bus stop? That is why all that is left in this case is random speculation about what might have happened.

 

[somequestions]

The Disappeared episode about Tabitha Tuder's case is titled, Last Stop. It was made in 2018.

I added a video below from a youtube channel called Find the Missing. This video has some more current info. It seems that currently police are looking into the angle that Tabitha Tuders was trafficked. My opinion is that she was abducted by someone who lives in one of the houses along the route she walked to school, but that is complete speculation. There are clips from the Disappeared episode in the video and it gives a better description of the timeline from the day she disappeared.

 

[Mrs.Stade143]

In a case like this, there is only so much information to follow. I do not think the police have much more of an idea about who abducted Tabitha Tuders than we do. I also think it was unfortunate police were not able to get the internet chat room information of whoever she was communicating with online, but that is not their fault. It does not sound like Tabitha had a personal computer since her internet activity took place at the local library.

According to the story, Tabitha Tuders walked to the first bus stop at 14th and Boscobel Street between 7:50 and 8 am. Since 14th street appears to be busier, her mother did not want her waiting at that intersection alone if there were no other students waiting there to get on the bus. Then she was to walk across 14th street down Boscobel to the other school bus stop at the intersection of 15th and Boscobel Street. Halfway down Boscobel between 14th and 15th streets a car pulled up and she got inside. This is the story.

It does not appear that it is a long walk from where Tabitha Tuders lived on Lillian Street to where her first bus stop was at 14th and Boscobel. If it was someone who lived in a residence along the route she walked to the bus stops, then the police must have missed it because it appears to be a very short walk. I think they probably would have questioned residents along her walking route.

What would cause a 13-year-old girl to get lured into a house? I think a pet could be one possibility, but I also think a fancy sports car in the garage could be another. In the Disappeared episode about the case, they said the family liked to go to the racetrack.

It could be someone she met in a chat room, but the problem with that theory is in order for the abductor to know who she is, they would probably ask for her picture. The abduction happened on a Tuesday so maybe this person was unemployed living alone with a pet or liked automobiles. In order to be able to narrow down the time frame they would need to be outside on the porch or looking out the window each day when Tabitha passed by.

I can understand why the main theory is a random car with a stranger pulled up and offered her ride, probably to school. People say she would not get into a car with a random stranger. It is hard to understand what a 13-year-old would do in this situation. If she was abducted into a car, once the car leaves, it is anybody's guess as to where it went next. But one thing I believe is this: If Tabitha Tuders does not know which bus stop she is going to be picked up from that day, how is she going to be able to tell her abductor? Would she really tell her abductor in the car that if she leaves the one bus stop to pick up her before she gets to the next bus stop? That is why all that is left in this case is random speculation about what might have happened.

There was so much they could of done. For one they could of set off an Amber alert.. Which they failed to do cuz they didnt believe she had been kidnapped.. There was a couple who were arrested for sexual abuse of a teenage girl , lived only 5 houses down from her. Not to mention at least 3 other pedophiles on her block.. I believe there was more they could of done. Someone knows something..

 

[SimplyCass]

There was so much they could of done. For one they could of set off an Amber alert.. Which they failed to do cuz they didnt believe she had been kidnapped.. There was a couple who were arrested for sexual abuse of a teenage girl , lived only 5 houses down from her. Not to mention at least 3 other pedophiles on her block.. I believe there was more they could of done. Someone knows something..

this case would not have met the Amber Alert criteria. There was no description of a car or a suspect.

The missing poster/banner the family has outside unsettles me in a way most cases don't. It's very sad. I wonder if her parents wanted to move away or into a bigger place and couldn't because of the chance, however remote it may be, that she might walk through the door. (Sorta like the Etan Patz case, his parents remained at that same place for some 40 years, from 1979 to 2019.)

 

[Ghostwheel]

At this point, who knows what the correct color of the car is? Kind of weird that whoever is saying green seems to have more credence.

If she wasn't one to get in a car with a stranger, then she either knew the driver, or there was already someone in the car she knew. It's all I can figure.

 

[dulcinea]

At this point, who knows what the correct color of the car is? Kind of weird that whoever is saying green seems to have more credence.

If she wasn't one to get in a car with a stranger, then she either knew the driver, or there was already someone in the car she knew. It's all I can figure.

I always thought there was just a driver in the car, but you made me stop and think. Perhaps a schoolmate was in the car so she felt safe. I would think that schoolmate would come forward and say Tabitha got in the car that morning, but perhaps they are just too scared about what happened next to say anything. I do think she knew the driver or at least had a passing knowledge of who it was.

 

[Ghostwheel]

I always thought there was just a driver in the car, but you made me stop and think. Perhaps a schoolmate was in the car so she felt safe. I would think that schoolmate would come forward and say Tabitha got in the car that morning, but perhaps they are just too scared about what happened next to say anything. I do think she knew the driver or at least had a passing knowledge of who it was.

Not if the schoolmate was maybe someone a bit older or part of whatever happened. Might have even just been a neighbor she knew in the car or someone who worked in a store she frequented.

Random possible scenario: Person she knew from convenience store she frequented was in the car, either driving or passenger. Leaned out and said, Hey, we'll take you to school. She knew him/her enough to think it was OK.

 

[somequestions]

I think there are a few possibilities about who it could be that was in the car that picked her up. The story about Tabitha Tuders being picked up in a car seems credible. The problem is that if that was the case and the person was a stranger it could literally be anyone from anywhere. No one even knew she was missing until she did not arrive home from school. The person in the car could be a personal connection, but it might also be someone of authority she may have trusted.

I would investigate the houses along her walking route that could see her from their window as she walked to the bus stop because I would want to know that even if the case remains unsolved, everything was done that could be done to try and solve it.

The one aspect of this case that is a little strange is how the abductor in the car had to assume that someone might have seen their car. This is how the eyewitness account came about from the kid at the bus stop at 15th and Boscobel. Maybe getting car registrations for red or green cars in the area and visiting the residences associated with those color vehicles would help narrow it down? But I cannot imagine that after this long police did not already do this. Maybe the abductor wanted it to appear they were from outside the area by using their car? That still does not explain how they were able to get Tabitha Tuders to get into their car. This is definitely a very difficult case to solve.

 

[Ghostwheel]

This is true. If this were just someone passing through, the likelihood of finding her is very slim.