Did the police ever check if either witness who saw a car was color blind? That could explain one seeing a red car and the other a green one.

I agree the poor little girl was abducted, i am surprised that with a prefect attendance at school they did not try contacting the parents out of concern when she did not show up for school.

MTL could have stood for "My True Love," meaning that Tabitha did not yet know who that would be but hoped to meet him some day.

Man, imagine being her parents... 20 years later and still no idea what happened.

The schools here in central Virginia started calling parents if a kid was absent in the late 80s-early 90s. The $20 left behind in her room tells me that she didn't run away. A kid who has planned to run away will take every bit of cash they have with them.

Red-green is the most common form of colour blindness, occurring in about 10% of men. I wonder if the two witnesses could have been describing the same car, with at least one witness being colour blind.

This case happened about an hour from my home. It had a very profound impact on the community. Her mother has fought to keep the spotlight on Tabitha's case every day since she disappeared hoping and praying for answers. I think it's also worth noting that at the time this happened 13 was fairly immature for kids, esp in that area & we know Tabitha was more immature than most. I think it's very unlikely she ran away. Thank you for covering it.

This reminds me a lot of myself. I was a relatively sheltered, straight A student. I was born a year before Tabitha. Right around the age she disappeared, I had gotten very involved with chat rooms. I was lonely and it was easier to make friends. At that time, I had no idea of the dangers and that people might not be who they said they were online. Luckily for me, my sister told my parents who put a stop to it. But I could see Tabitha doing something similar and not being so lucky.

I feel Tabitha was a victim of foul play. A girl who sleeps at the foot of her parents bed and is close to her mother isn't going to go missing on her own volition. The guy was no doubt a stalker and possibly a stranger. It's a very sad story! I feel so bad that her parents have had to live with this nightmare for so many years. The not knowing must be torture.

Monsters live among us, disguised as human beings. This is every parent's nightmare.

Predators are known to approach victims telling them something has happened to their parents, etc. and they are there to take them to the hospital, etc. This could easily have happened and would explain why the predator could be from any place far away. Poor little girl :(

Dr. Grande, how is speaking to people at the library on a chatroom as well as smoking with a man 8 years her senior considered "no signs of' foul play?

How can people believe a 13-year-old disappears 20 years ago and still think it might be a runaway.

Very sad and yes, parents worst nightmare. This poor girl was abducted. Straight A student, no problems at home or bullying at school so there was no reason for her to run away. I can’t even imagine how hard this has been on her family 😢

I can't imagine a worse way to lose a loved one than having one vanish like this. If a loved one dies at least we can grieve. Never knowing how they died or even if they died would be unbearable. And then the psychics show up, hoping to profit from our pain. Thank you for the thought-provoking analysis, Dr. Grande.

In the 90’s. The schools didn’t call home is kids were absent. That started later like 2000’s

I attended Bailey Middle with tabitha when she disappeared. I can remember the many rumors spreading around the school about what happened and many students claiming to have seen her after her disappearance. Police were in and out of our school constantly investigating leads! Tabitha was a sweet girl and it’s crazy for to think that 20 years later there’s still no answers!

Anyone that’s old enough to drive but targets a 13-yr old does not have the best intentions. Easily a case of foul play

Not at high risk? 20 minutes walking to the bus alone everyday is A LOT. Plus, apparently there was a significant possibility of no one else being there and her having to go to a different bus stop, walking even further. Plus, who knows how long they were standing waiting for the bus. I'd say she was very high risk considering she was all alone and both her parents were gone. Anyone could watch and know that was the case.

I work overnights at a grocery store and it’s such a treat when you post so I can listen while working

I feel so sad for the parents, that’s truly the worst nightmare. Thank you for the review, Dr. Grande.❤

I wonder if one of the witnesses was color blind. The 11 year old boy saw a red car, and the neighbor saw a green car. Just a thought.

I'm not dismissing the kid who claimed to see the red car.

This is my mother's worst nightmare. I think she knew the young man. He said he would give her a ride to school. All young people like to have an adult drop them at school rather than riding the bus. As soon as she was in the car she was zipped away for abuse and murder. Due to her young age, statutory rape applied and she had to be killed to cover up the abuse. There is no argument of consent with such a young person.

The saddest stories are the ones where a child disappears. My heart goes out to the family.

The fact that Tabitha disappeared while on her way TO SCHOOL and the fact that no one FROM SCHOOL attempted to notify her parent(s) as was protocol is a HUGE red flag. A teacher or school employee would know of Tabitha, maybe even have been a trusted acquaintance of Tabitha that she knew at school AND be able to know/find out where Tabitha lived as well as where she would catch the school bus in the morning. 🤔Am I wrong?

When I was 13 I had no life outside my parents

I think the first boy was absolutely correct. The police dogs confirm that she entered a car at the point he indicated. He would have been able to see the driver in profile when he made a U turn, hence the detail of a baseball cap and probably enough contrast in the morning sun to note the race of the driver. The boy was probably looking up the street watching for the bus and saw Tabitha walking towards him. The others simply weren't looking that way. We are so spoiled by how well cameraed our streets are now it is hard to imagine a time when these things happened without many, if only electronic witnesses.

I think MTL stands for My True Love.

It is always so sad when people go missing. Sometimes we forget how vulnerable our teenagers are. I worry about my 14 year old granddaughter, at least she is a big girl,5 foot 8 1/2 inches and thick, so maybe that gives her an advantage. But mostly we adults have to explain how dangerous the world can be.

Very bizarre case. Parents truly only know so much about what is going on with kids.

Your videos are like reading a well written true crime book. I don't have time to read on my own now that I am getting my MBA, so your videos are a welcome replacement! Thank you!

I live in the neighborhood this happened in and the house still has her missing persons poster on it 😢

always a hot topic here in Nashville on the anniversary of her disappearance. I remember it specifically because it happened right after I moved to the city.

Poor wee girl...I hope one day Tabithas family will get some answers. Great content as always Dr Grande ! 💖🐕

This case is extremely sad. I was about the same age as Tabitha in '03 and at that age you are so vulnerable, naive and innocent. I can't believe that the school was so irresponsible and negligent to not call the parents about her not being at school. Such a horrible situation and outcome for this poor angel🤍🕊

This is so very sad. I hate these kinds of cases but you Dr.Grande tell it with a lot of dignity to the children. Txxd

Incredibly strange that a 13 year old would sleep at foot of parents' bed. Would definitely want to know when this started. It's not for no reason.

I live in East Nashville and this is great to hear you cover this tragic story.

I don't know. The ex-live-in sounds pretty right to me. He fits too well. And she would have felt comfortable enough to get into his car too.

Life is too scary for young children these days…. It’s almost a nightmare

The police refused to look for Tabitha for nearly a year until her case and the police inaction were featured on America's Most Wanted. I've lived in that neighborhood since 1992 and I remember her parents trying to get attention to the case because the police said she ran away and would not investigate. East Nashville was a poor area back then and the police, schools and the rest of Davidson county did not care at all about the residents. As far as her smoking with the 19 year old, him saying it doesn't make it so

As usual compelling and well spoken. It is so nice to hear someone use impeccable language. Thank you!

I always just drove my kids to school since my work schedule was malleable. When I was a kid we walked.

All that time lost because the school didn't call??!! My God!

Kids can be distracted by goofing off together or whatever, so I wouldn't find it impossible that only one kid saw things. Some of his account seemed to be corroberated by the dogs. (I used to be sceptical of kid's reports, but I remember the case where a 13(?)-year old kid was the only one who described a motor-cycle in the area which actually led to the finding and the arrest of the killer.) If the perpetrator was someone unknown to her (which isn't as unlikely as people would prefer to think imo), he could have had a gun or some BS ruse. If she knew him, she probably would have trusted him. Such a sad case 😢🙁

🥀🙏🕊️🥀🙏🕊️🥀🙏🕊️ Prayers for Tabitha, and her Family.💔🙏💔🙏💔🙏 And for Answers, and Justice.🙏🙏🙏🙏

You certainly did your homework, Dr. Grande. Another of east Nashville's nicknames was "no man's land". Thank you for another excellent video!

Good morning, Dr. Grande! Tabitha was abducted and the school was remiss in not notifying her parents when she didn't show up at school. Given her history, it is doubtful that she ran away. As for the witnesses, they clearly didn't know what they were talking about and they were not quickly forthcoming with their "information," so their memories were not as good as they might have been had they come forward earlier. And I concur with you, that it was probably somebody she knew and was aware of her schedule. Thanks for sharing.

Or he (the boy) liked her and was watching for her to walk down the hill and then he saw the car pull up and she got in. Younger children than he notice what they saw. I think kids are good witnesses because they don’t have much of a filter.

It was East Nasty (for East Nashville) or Inglehood (for Inglewood, the specific neighborhood) in those days, but nowadays you’ll find houses on Lillian Street selling for high-six to low-seven figures.

Scary stuff reminds me of the black phone movie the dudes steals kids from his black van disguised as a magician but gets their attention by faking clumsily dropping his equipment and asking them for help

Hi Dr. Grande. I think a video or a short on the prevalence of mental health issues or personality disorders between different countries would be very interesting. Thanks for all you do!

I now look forward to watching these every night! Thank you for your hard work, Dr. Grande. ☺️

I was a teacher in a Catalan high school (students from 12 to 17 years old). Our protocol was to send text to parents if the student was not in school at the first hour of class. This was made automatically. Pobre niña! In your country a lot of children disappear. It's awful.

Hello from New Zealand!

I know the Tudor and Pulley families personally, and all are absolutely beautiful people. This little girl was a sweetheart, and was very loved and protected. East Nashville is completely different now, but in those days it was rough, although typically tight knit. In my view, she was abducted. It's that simple. No one in the family, school community, or certainly Tabitha herself did anything to cause this. Our only hope is that one day there's closure of some type. Her parents are tough as nails, and the family has endured other tragedy, but they remain hopeful and positive people. God bless all of them.

Despite the dogs losing her sent, it might be that it wasn't a car, but perhaps a residence. Someone living on her route to the bus stop would have been familiar with seeing her. The abductor might have chatted with her and she became familiar with him enough to entice her into the residence. Anyway, what a tragedy!

Odd school didn't alert the parents & sleeping at foot of parents bed. Agree foul play at hand, by someone who knew her. Great analysis again. Thanks Dr G 😊💛🧡

1)This is sad and disturbing. I bet that neighborhood homes and nearby businesses didnt have cameras back in 2003. 2) If the police had kept the library computer, I bet newer forensic advancements could've found written over communication and search history. 3) Maybe the 11yo witness saw the red car and driver up close before this date and fused these details together. At his age and immature mind he couldn't clearly distinguish bits of info with different timelines and past observations. His mind fused different bits together. We've known for decades that adult eyewitness accounts are terribly unreliable.

All kids have secret lives. They are trying on traits and personalities, they are filled with millions of possibilities and no one should ever take that from them. Tragic.

As an aside, MTL likely stands for 'my true love.' Great video as always Dr Grande!

Like a fine watch Dr G is right on time

Police should consider if the two individuals who saw the red/green car are colorblind.

Times have either changed and it has become more dangerous for children or these types of crimes weren't reported many years ago. It is so scary parents to let their kids walk to the bus stop without a group of kids or supervision. Even if this poor girl met someone she was still a child and didn't see the potential danger. Very sad.

I hope someday there is closure to this case and she can rest in peace.

I’m surprised I’ve never heard of this case. I’m 2 years younger than Tabitha, and I grew up in Nashville at the time

I was attending school in East Nashville at the time. This case was huge in that whole city. You'd hear people talking about this case for a couple years. Given all the attention locally, it's insane how little they ever found to go on. We were the same age. Her case still hits close to home for me.

Hi nighttime watchers!!

Unbelievable that, in the 2000's, the school didn't make any phone calls at all when a good student inexplicably doesn't show up to school with no call from the parents to notify of an absence.

There is that case where 3 women were held prisoner in a neighborhood for give or take 15 years. At one point the police missed the girls by 1 house. They looked into a house next door and missed the house where all the girls were being held prisoner. With that said Tabatha could be in any house in the neighborhood and no one would know. Also she might have been killed but if they can’t find the body they won’t ever know for sure.

I hope Tabitha is at peace. Bless you🙏❤️

When I was a kid I remember girls would write their initials + SOS where SOS = "Some one special". I wonder if the modern equivalent is MTL = "My true love". It doesn't mean anything one way or the other except maybe she thought she had a true love. If I were a cold case detective, I'd try to find and interview her girlfriends/classmates at the time. She might have confided something that didn't seem important to them at the time. I'd also look at parents of her classmates. She might not consider them a stranger and feel more comfortable getting into their car.

The amount of these stories that include, "The school didn't inform the parents about the unexcused absence", is pretty shocking.

I'd be curious to hear what the 11 year old boy says now after all these years.

As a father of 2 daughters, who also experienced the lives of many of their female playmates, I know that many young girls experience the "13 yro going on 21" syndrome. My oldest daughter was a str8 A student but hung out with other girls that were her her academic inferiors. She also was communicating with older men who were predators. She got into a lot of trouble because of this, and no amount of punishment and explaining the dangers of her actions would dissuade her from repeating the same stupid mistakes. How she ever survived her stupid behaviors is a miracle to me. Her younger sister learned from her older sister's mistakes. I believe their are many predators who stalk and groom girls that age either for person abuse, or to sell them to sex trafficking organizations. Sex trafficking is a huge lucrative business Worldwide that deals in millions of sex slave each year. I believe Tabatha is dead or still being trafficked.

So sad and mysterious. I do agree with your analysis Dr. Grande! Thank you for covering the case.

MTL could be My True Love. I feel that she was abducted or went voluntary , picked up by someone she knew or had conversed with online. I wouldn't write off the first witness's testimony of the Red Car as fantasy as he said the car went up the hill and there is a hill there and the scent was lost at that location. Assuming the boy was not Red / Green color blind , it may have been a green car , it is possible if the boy was standing at the junction of both streets , he could be the only one thatsaw the car ,as opposed to at the specific bus stop and kids these days are too busy talking to notice much if anything and a girl voluntarliy getting into a car without screaming , even if someone saw it happen would not arouse any suspicion.

I was living in Nashville at that time and casually dating a man that lived on Boscobel when this happened. He was a new doctor doing his residency at Vanderbilt so he didn’t have a lot of time to get involved with searching. I was also very close to metro police officers who leaked information about the older brothers shady dealings. They also stated that Tabitha wasn’t as innocent as it would seem. She was allegedly getting involved with the older brother’s ‘clients’. As a 13 yr old, I always saw her as a victim. Period. But I definitely sensed that many officers weren’t as committed to finding her as I thought they should.

Why would she sleep at the foot of her mother's bed? Suspicious, was something happening to her at home at night when she was in her room? Father, mother, and older siblings need to be investigated thoroughly.This case needs to be solved, like, now.

I don't believe this girl ran away. The fact that she was last seen between the two bus stops tells me she was obeying her mum's instructions to move to the next stop if there were no kids at the first one. This also tells me that she would never get into a car with a stranger, because this was also an instruction from her mum. I assume the police checked the initials of the sisters ex? Obviously if they match, then the alibi could be false. I wonder could MTL stand for My True Love or something, in the same way BFF stands for Best Friends Forever? No girl who's running away from home leaves her house without her clothes and the 20 dollars she had. Don't forget, she was alone after the parents left, so no one to ask her why she's taking a bag etc. This theory definitely doesn't hold water. Also, if she's running away with a guy with a car, he'd call to her house after the parents had left to collect her, or meet her very near to her house. One other thought, could the piece of paper be a password for a chatroom that someone has set up for private messages? She logged into whatever chat room it was and then used the code to access it. Just a theory. I think her friend probably knows more than she's saying because I know I told my best friend everything at that age. The friend is probably afraid she'll get in trouble for not telling because so much time has passed. The parents should approach the friend in a friendly way and ask again. My last theory is, could the MTL stand for Mr somebody or other? Did she have any male teachers? Especially the one who gave her the good report? Just a thought. Thanks for a great video. Never heard of this poor girl. I pray she is found someday. 🙏🙏

It’s always interesting when people consider runaways to be in less danger or somehow less worthy of attention when they are missing like, “oh she’s definitely just a runaway, I hope they charge her with something and make her pay back the money wasted searching for her...” or “no, this poor little girl was definitely was kidnapped! I can’t believe they aren’t doing more!”

So sad. And she has a lovely name.

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Sounds like it had to be someone she knew or family. People would have heard screaming if she felt frightened by a stranger

As far as the little note with her initials , it could have just been a celebrity. Plenty of my 13 year old classmates had their initials N JTT scrawled on their notebooks. It sounds like a crime of opportunity to me unfortunately 😢

Can you do a video on Michael Dunahee. Fascinating story.

Dr.Grande I love all your videos!! Especially late at night!

I think there is a possibility that Tabitha may have known the predator, or she was told by the predator that her mother or father was in an accident/hospital to have her enter the vehicle. I tend to wonder if the predator is familiar to the family as well. Sad to know that this case hasn't been solved yet. Monsters have no shame! Thank you for your analysis Dr. Grande.

Hey Dr. Grande💜 This case has always always made me so sad. I wish so badly this one could be solved. I can't wait to hear your opinion on this one

I love all Dr. Grande videos. Great insight, information and analysis. Never missed a video. Great job Dr. Grande 👏👏👏

Poor girl😔😔😔 Btw I’ve never heard of anyone sleeping at the foot of their parents bed..So weird

In 2003 chat rooms were very popular. Maybe she mentioned where she lived and a predator snatched her. It’s really sad because there is no closure. It’s odd because there’s so little evidence. I hope they find out what happened to her.

13 year old girls who think they are old enough to fool around with older boys. This would be devastating if it happened to me. Speaking of crime ridden neighborhoods, Lori Lightfoot is a personality I'd love to hear "speculated" upon.

Great content Dr. Grande. I like these throwbacks to old crime cases.

3/4/23 Imo, where she was immature she was lead astray and then turned into foul play. TARGETED! I hope the family gets answers to what really happened to their daughter 💔

I live in the Nashville area...I remember when this happened. It is so heart breaking.

Curious if anyone has gone back and interviewed the 11-year-old boy who said he saw a red car. He might have been trying to insert himself in the excitement of the story, and in retrospect, he probably would tell investigators that.

I hate when authorities immediately assume that a happy, well-adjusted kid just ran away from home.

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