Found Deceased TN - Tamia Taylor, 21, met friend at 11:30pm and got on a riverboat, when riverboat docked she was missing, Memphis, 9 Sep 2023

[LadyL]

The friends’ story lost me when they said she left her phone to go the bathroom. That would be extremely unusual, bordering on unbelievable, for any 21 year old I know. Granted, I don’t know all of them, but I have multiple kids from 16-22, plus all of their friends. They don’t just leave their phone on the table with friends while out in public.

I would if I didn't have a pocket to stick it it in - rather than set it down in a dirty public bathroom.

 

[LadyL]

Me too. It just doesn’t make sense that she was there at just about the end of the boat ride and then she’s gone and no one knows what happened.

so she either went with her friends and something happened later on or she's in the water
she was probably quite tipsy and maybe fell overboard but that doesn't explain why the friends did not raise the alarm right then unless there was the possibility she left with someone else and they thought they would meet up with her ...

 

[musicaljoke]

so she either went with her friends and something happened later on or she's in the water
she was probably quite tipsy and maybe fell overboard but that doesn't explain why the friends did not raise the alarm right then unless there was the possibility she left with someone else and they thought they would meet up with her ...

Perhaps she left before the friends headed for the exit.

 

[LadyL]

Perhaps she left before the friends headed for the exit.

Or they left her there and she took a ride with someone nefarious.

 

[Knox]

Or they left her there and she took a ride with someone nefarious.

IMO, this is going to be the case. What happened to Tamia occurred off the boat after the cruise ended.

 

[neesaki]

I don't want to say her friends are suspects, I don't necessarily want to go that far, BUT, if I was on a boat with my friends and one of us said "here's my phone I'm gonna run to the bathroom", we certainly wouldn't just get in our car and leave without said friend. JMO

Exactly.I would have gone and looked for her. JMO

 

[Inthedetails]

Do we know that her friends were all female?

That's my question too. My hunch is they are not all female. It's really hard for me to believe women would leave the birthday girl behind like that.

Who are these people? That's my question.

jmo

 

[Inthedetails]

Also, the phone story makes no sense, as others have already pointed out.

jmo

 

[MrsWatson]

Considering it was a midnight booze cruise, I wonder what the intoxication level of everyone on board was, including the friends Tamia was with. It's been years since I've been on one, but they were not quiet prim affairs IME.

Not buying the phone story, either, add me to the list.

 

[charminglane]

Considering it was a midnight booze cruise, I wonder what the intoxication level of everyone on board was, including the friends Tamia was with. It's been years since I've been on one, but they were not quiet prim affairs IME.

Not buying the phone story, either, add me to the list.

We also do not know if drinks were had before the boat trip.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

“No one knows anything, and I don’t understand how,” Debra Taylor said. “I do feel the people she was with, I do think that they know more than their putting out. I do think, and I do have enough sense to know she didn’t just leave here. She didn’t just disappear.”

Debra Taylor explained recently, “The only thing they (her friends) told me was, she went upstairs on the second floor to use the bathroom. She put her phone down on the table. ‘We picked her phone up, we went and waited by the door for her to come out and then we left.’ Why would you leave? That makes no sense. Y’all came together, y’all stick together.”

Riverboat cruise company says missing woman made it back to Memphis harbor; her mother has questions in Day 3 of search

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis riverboat cruise company says they don’t think missing mother Tamia Taylor went overboard as she celebrated her 21st birthday aboard their boat Sunday, saying video…

wreg.com

 

[lonetraveler]

That's my question too. My hunch is they are not all female. It's really hard for me to believe women would leave the birthday girl behind like that.

Who are these people? That's my question.

jmo

That was my thought too. Usually the girls go to the restroom together. JMO I also question a girl leaving her phone behind. They are usually glued to the phone.

 

[lonetraveler]

“No one knows anything, and I don’t understand how,” Debra Taylor said. “I do feel the people she was with, I do think that they know more than their putting out. I do think, and I do have enough sense to know she didn’t just leave here. She didn’t just disappear.”

Debra Taylor explained recently, “The only thing they (her friends) told me was, she went upstairs on the second floor to use the bathroom. She put her phone down on the table. ‘We picked her phone up, we went and waited by the door for her to come out and then we left.’ Why would you leave? That makes no sense. Y’all came together, y’all stick together.”

Riverboat cruise company says missing woman made it back to Memphis harbor; her mother has questions in Day 3 of search

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis riverboat cruise company says they don’t think missing mother Tamia Taylor went overboard as she celebrated her 21st birthday aboard their boat Sunday, saying video…

wreg.com

I'm assuming the door where they waited for her to come back was the door to the outside of the riverboat and not waiting at the bathroom door.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

I'm assuming the door where they waited for her to come back was the door to the outside of the riverboat and not waiting at the bathroom door.

I had an image in my head of the other way around. Idk why. That’s why I thought it so strange they didn't wait for her…unless they were guys.

*edited: I guess not both guys.
“We all out here because we love her, we care about her. We want her to return. Whether she comes back alive or whether I have to bury her, I need closure because I am hurting,” Tamia’s mother, Debra Taylor, told News 3.

“I said, ‘What do you mean you don’t know?’ She said, ‘We don’t know. We lost her.’ How do you lose somebody that you came with?’”

“She then gave me the story, ‘We were on the boat. We were getting out of the boat and Tamia says she had to go to the bathroom. She put her phone down to go back up to the second floor to use the bathroom. We picked up her phone. We went to the door to stand and wait on her and then we left.’”

‘This is nothing that we’re going to let go’: Missing Mom Makes it Back to Harbor But Still Missing After Boarding Cruise Ship

A Tennessee riverboat cruise company says missing Mississippi mother-of-two, Tamia Taylor, who was last seen aboard the cruise ship, returned to the harbor and did not go overboard. “We can confirm from video footage circling around that she was last seen on the boat as the boat was pulling into...

www.crimeonline.com

 

[lonetraveler]

I had an image in my head of the other way around. Idk why. That’s why I thought it so strange they didn't wait for her…unless they were guys.

That's why I posted "were the friends all female". If they were waiting by the restroom, I would expect at least one of them would have gone into the restroom to check on her. But then, I also would expect one of the friends to go up to the restroom and check on her. Something is not right with the story. JMO

 

[imstilla.grandma]

That's why I posted "were the friends all female". If they were waiting by the restroom, I would expect at least one of them would have gone into the restroom to check on her. But then, I also would expect one of the friends to go up to the restroom and check on her. Something is not right with the story. JMO

Initially, I thought there were three friends for some reason. Has it been said there were only two friends? I forgot it was on a Saturday night, so not after work? Right?

 

[lonetraveler]

I hope that LE are tracking where her phone was after the group left the riverboat.

 

[lonetraveler]

Initially, I thought there were three friends for some reason. Has it been said there were only two friends? I forgot it was on a Saturday night, so not after work? Right?

In the very beginning her mother said she was with a friend, not friends like we are hearing now.

 

[Inthedetails]

My hinky meter won't stop clicking!

jmo

 

[Bogbacal2]

I realize they didn’t all drive to the location to board the boat together, however, who leaves a place, much less a <modsnip> boat knowing their friend “left her phone and ran to the bathroom”. No, sorry! Don’t believe them. I wonder how long they “waited” at the door-which, by the way would probably be on the dock because they were getting off and the employees would have ushered all patrons off of the boat, imo.
I would like to know what the employees’ had to say-claim to have cameras so did they see her go to the bathroom? Anyone?