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Danelle Hallan Crying 😭! THE QUEEN REPLIED

Omg this is a GREAT IDEA!! My daughter spends an hour every day at school playing the violin, which she seriously dislikes and will most likely never use in her future, I'd support an hour of teaching our kids life goals. Personal safety. Internet safety. Etc etc

I am an Australian school teacher and we have a curriculum that we teach in SA that teaches students about keeping safe. I'm hopeful that teaching my students this helps them trust their instincts and keep themselves safe.

I’m around the same age as Tabitha, I was in 7th grade in 2003 as well, and I don’t know if this was specific the the county I live in or because I went to private school, but every year we had a day that was all about safety/not talking to strangers/ what to do if someone tries to take you. A local police officer would come and we would watch videos as well. I still remember that stuff so vividly...like how you can access a tail light if you are put into a trunk, break the tail light and stick your hand through to try to get attention...

Cheryl T i actually found that a little suspicious too.

CheryI T I didn't think about that, that could be possible!!

I was going to say something was up with that. It makes sense, she felt safe in their room

I agree Cheryl. It seems a little unusual. I honestly don't think Tabitha felt safe in her room. Poor darling. I hope she is found very soon.

It did strike me as unusual, I don’t think it’s very common for a girl that old the sleep in her parents room. The only positive to this theory is that maybe she DID run away and is safe and happy somewhere.

or have something permanently horrific happen to them in this life

I completely agree, there should be some category of criminal harassment pertaining to targeting people because they’re grieving. Same with all the monsters out there who send hateful messages to missing persons pages on social media; some of the things those admins have to read are truly twisted.

So sad! Hope find her alive !

@@jasminetravisreyes9603 ever heard of harassment? It's illegal.

So true. Along with putting an already-suffering family through even more hell, these “pranks” (which honestly seems like too innocent of a word here) can also seriously hamper the investigation. False info sends police on wild goose chases, which ends up costing precious time/resources that should go toward investigating REAL leads.

Right?!?

yeah my life basically has no routine. I have a morning routine where I wake up at the same time and my dad takes me to school at the same time every day but after that I dont know how or when I'm getting picked up and what I do for the rest of the day until it happens lol

This makes sense with what I've said about tabatha TUDORS !! I was trying to figure out how to send you some pictures about this CASE .

I agree. They are still children and must have real problems if they are willing to run away. Especially if they love their family that much.

It’s like they’re saying runaways deserve whatever happens to them which is just sick. Kids don’t for-see the outcome of things they do. I was catfish once at 16 by a way older man and if I hadn’t of phoned my mum to come get me would I have just been labelled as a runaway? It’s so scary.

Fran Fox I don't understand that either x

Fran Fox me either! I’m sure if that was their kid they wouldn’t think that ways

I think the police assumed she would just come home as most runaways do and that’s why they weren’t doing as much as they should of? I’m not sure. Either way it’s not right by any means

Yes! It’s one of the untold things but dogs have found many bodies, drugs and explosives! They have saved many lives and brought closure to many cases. 💖

Seriously! It is crazy! Dogs are so amazing.

Most of the time. Think about weather.

its also kind of pointless because i (and lots of other kids) used to just pick up the phone before our parents came home when we were out being tardy/truant

I hate to break it to you but your kid's school is f*cking up big time because those calls are supposed to occur by like 5pm at the absolute latest. When I would skip class I would simply catch the call because my mom didn't get home until a few hours after I got home. Often the call was already on my answering machine when I got home and I don't think it ever once came in later than 4: 30. The only times it was even that late is when I attended most of the day but skipped one of my classes after lunch. If I didn't show up at all or missed a class any time in the first half of the day that call was in by 1:00 without fail and my middle school and high school each had over 2,500 students to keep track of. Your kid's school is LAZY.

Yeah i agree. I was a bit of a wild child iin school and I used to come home and wait to get in trouble for skipping and most the time they wouldn't even call and my parents would never know. I think back to that now and am pretty baffled. It's almost like they just expected it from me and stopped even marking me down or something?

We are called by 9:30am if our kids are absent.

@@AB-ut2be same here ! ..I've watched lots of these USA based missing children crimes and I'm always surprised that the parent hasn't had a phone call if they have not been present for morning registration ..if I dont phone my daughters school to explain she will be absent that day, I will get a call asking where she is ..this is normal procedure in the UK .. is it the same in America in most schools usually ?

The boyfriend was checked 100 and eliminated. He also had no red car.

A detailed memory is not indicative of an accurate memory. There are very many things that can influence or taint a person's memory and even create false memories - even very quickly/when asking for a recent memory. It's why eye witness testimony doesn't hold as much weight as some would expect. There's a lot of really cool (but inconvenient for crime) research about it in the recent years.

I wish they followed that lead a lot more a lot sooner, but then again I still want to know why his story isn't credible?!

human traffic you don't think it will happen to you we thought that and my late wife daughter was taken from Seattle her friend told us she got real bad people and that is all we were told, we tracked her to Alaska and later to Las Vegas where she was murdered and I found out she witnessed a murder and when the man was released from jail he found her and killed her, me a common joe found this information out...I found out the statement on Las Vegas "what Happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas" my wife pasted away three years ago god save her soul with out finding out what happen to her daughter which is now a cold case...we live in a small cattle town and she was visiting a friend in Seattle when she was taken

@@biaedwards4025 This video said he did have a red car so u mite want to check that again .

Jen Juniper different times / they do that now but not back then

i was actually thinking the same thing too! at my schools, if your parents didn't call you in sick or whatever, the school would start calling by like 9ish to make sure everything is okay (to avoid stuff like this, i'm sure) or if you were trying to skip, your parents know to wooop your ass!! if they were just a school that wasn't on top of attendance -- okay, guess that sucks.... but if they are supposed to be calling, your comment is kinda making me suspicious of possibly a teacher/faculty taking her or doing something sketch... ?_?*

I missed how long ago this happened? I'm 36. Even when i was in middle & high school (early 90's until 98) the schools would call & leave a message on the machine if kids were absent.

Every school I have gone to they don't call until after school to notify the parents that the kid wasn't in school. But I also know a lot of kids would fill out the cards that are supposed to have contact info for the parents with a wrong number or a friend's cell phone number.

I went to middle school - high school through the early 2000s in Arlington, Tx. I lived on the same block & went to the same school, same grade as Amber Haggerman. Stranger danger was our existence as students and a community. But it’s so important to remember that every school has a varying policy, attendance system, budget for said systems, and teachers have bad days / lives too. I had teachers show up to my house to make sure I was okay and fed because they knew my parents were addicts. Those same people had families, stresses, needs, and professional obligations & still showed back up to work the next day.

Mreffs101 smart!

This is a brilliant point to bring up!

This is what immediately came to my mind too!

That's what came to mind also! I once heard that red and green can be confusing for people that are colorblind...? My friend's dad is colorblind and he couldn't see traffic lights. He knows when to go by watching when the bottom (green) light turns on and the top (red) light turns off.

That could be why they're saying he wasn't a reliable source?!

HUUUGE difference between a runaway and an abducted child. A runaway means they are going to search areas the child liked to hangout. If they just labeled every child "abducted" they would never find runaway... Let the police do their job.

We let the police do there job.. and they keep on failing and fuc king up..

@@tgs5725 stfu scott

@@tgs5725 That's not how that works bud... Whenever a child goes missing they always look at places the child could have went to voluntarily, regardless of circumstance. That's usually the first thing that's done unless there's hard evidence to suggest an abduction occurred. Actual runaways aren't going to be harmed by police departments doing their jobs and investigating all angles from the beginning of a missing person case. Assuming that someone is a runaway (especially when there's no evidence to suggest that someone has even run away!) is just the police being lazy and not wanting to do what they are being paid to do.

She did run away though and was most likely being SA in the home.

That's horrible! Thank God he was interrupted! I bet you still suffer from some kind of ptsd cause that's crazy

_livwith me right ?

I've said the same thing before! As a mother of 3, I know that my almost 16 year old is in no way mature enough to make educated decisions to be out on her own! I don't necessarily think my 18 yr old could seriously make it on her own out with unknown people! My 11 yr certainly could not. Any of the 3 I'd consider it an emergency if they disappeared/ took off with no word!

Or police should at least do the work just incase they aren't a runaway so that later on they will have the evidence.

exactly! and with their vulnerablility it makes them easy prey TO be kidnapped any way.

Sierra Melody exactly! Once they run away, they become extremely vulnerable to kidnapping, murder, everything in between. If anything the police should be more concerned when they hear “runaway”, not less

@@LadyGreyBlack her mama ain’t raise her right 🤢

No. It’s not the law that should change, it’s the police departments. Just because you and I may have good intentions wanting to implement such laws, it ends up being manipulated and used in completely different ways and circumstances than was intended. When a child goes missing and the police officers actually do their job and follow up on the case by wanting to search every house, they go door to door and ask each homeowner to do so. Those who say no are further looked into and determine whether or not they should get a warrant. That law for this certain situation is written well.

@@loko7914 thank you! I completely understand the need to do as much as is humanly possible to find a missing child, and the frustration and anger that the public experience when it's been so long with no answers. however, we just can't set that precedent. imagine what could come next if the police were allowed to go into anyone's house within an x mile radius of a missing person. I completely agree that it would inevitably be used in a nefarious way that completely goes against the spirit of the reason it was put into place to begin with. that would be the slipperiest slope and I would absolutely not want to live in a place where, bc a child went missing 1, 5, 10??? miles away, the police are legally allowed to just bust in EVERYONE'S house within that area. that would be terrifying.

Policemen just going into peoples' houses are one of the main reasons America was created. So, no. It shouldn't.

Insha I yes, her eyes made mine tear up

I felt like she was holding back tears also.. definitely a little red and glossy. I hope something can bring some kind of answers to the parents 😫😖😭😭💔💔💔

This is a very good theory!

Danelle Hallan but she wasn’t at school that day...

Ronshea Emerson that’s what they’re saying. They’re not saying that she went to school but that she was on her way and missed the bus and a stranger offered her a ride and because she was so scared to lose her perfect attendance she accepted the ride and the person who gave her the ride was the one who abducted her.

Ronshea Emerson Yes because the stranger probably took her somewhere else to keep her or murder her...

What if it was the mystery person from the chat rooms that pulled up and offered her a ride

I agree

Yea I feel she would have screamed and caused a scene if it was someone she didnt know. If it's not the boyfriend it was a neighbor. If she hung around the neighborhood she probably knew just about everyone. It almost seems like to me that the guy came up with a story like your sister needs you to come home maybe to watch the kids or something. and I'll take you to school afterwards.

I dont think she would have hesitated if the lie he used was about her family. That's why they had to turn around and go toward the house and he kept going. Thank god for everyone having cameras these days.

So messed up... I can't fathom living in a world where people find that okay to do.

I know. Those "jokes" are horrible and no one should subject them to that.

People are honestly so fucked up. What can possibly happen in your life to make you into such a cruel human being?

Cynthia Treptow you have to be sick af in the head to pull a messed up prank like that!! Ugh I wanna punch whoever thinks that’s funny.

Just saying "I'm Tabitha come save me!"Thats a rlly suspicious thing to say, wouldn't u be more specific, and give information to find u?

Krista i guess they’re released cuz their punishment has made them learn their lesson? I wouldn’t though, i feel like they’d still have that sick mindset that no punishment can change

In my state I’ve heard talk show hosts comment on how sex offenders need to be released back to the community they were arrested in. The reason is because judges who rule on these cases can be soft on sex offenders and predators when they are released in the city the prison is in. The community the person came from doesn’t have to deal with them but the city does. It’s the judges. That’s why elections are so important!

It’s sick there’s no excuse. If someone has abducted or molested a kid there is NO way ANYONE should be able to live with others besides other prisoners.

Right? It seems like they shouldn’t be allowed to live in developments or neighborhoods with a lot of kids at least, especially if they’re high on the S.O. List!!!

it's unforgivable. there so badly needs to be a one strike law with mandatory life w/o parole. child offenders and sexually violent predators CANNOT be rehabilitated. so many children + even adults would still be alive if, after conviction of certain offenses, these ppl had to stay in prison until they died. there are sooo many stories of someone being killed by a person with a heinous record that was released from prison anyway.

Schools never have. With the number of kids absent for a variety of reasons, it would take too many resources during the day. If anything they call during the evening in case the kid skipped school.

all schools in my city call home every period that a student misses everyday

BlazingLizard09 that’s crazy!! The school was always calling home when I was younger because they would always confuse me with another “Jesse” in the class

they usually don’t call home for someone who has a perfect attendance and good grades at least in my school because they assume the parents know

My high school was on point every time they called my mom to let her know I wasn’t there 🤬

Yeah... I can't believe they wasted time trying to find somebody with those initials! Ridiculous. I hope somebody eventually clued them in and they aren't STILL following that bogus lead.

I had no clue of that so I’m glad you said something.

This can tie in to the theory that it was someone in the chat rooms. They should try to contact people who were friends of her’s at her school just in case.

He said he worked on the case and it is still very well known within the department!

do they have a pretty good idea of what happened & just cant share info as its make or break...?? or do they know who done it & just can't get the evidence even circumstantial because of the screw up at the beginning by that chief? im so interested in how cops especially those with their own kids/little girls feel about this case💖

Elizabeth Gregory so what did he say

I live outside of Nashville! Would love to know if there's been any new in her case?

We would love to know an update about this case if he knows anything plesee

My school (only the HS that I can recall tho) didn’t call parents when children missed especially if it was regular. But in the lower grades I do believe they called. But in some circumstances they did call, like a girl who was very ill that I went to school with when I was a sophomore they called her mom to tell her she didn’t show up one day, which happened to be the day her mom found her dead. She committed suicide. I think it just depends.

I’ve noticed that some schools don’t have a set time when they call. My little sisters school will sometimes call in the morning a few hours after the first bell, multiple times throughout the day after every missed period, or sometimes they won’t call until 5 or 6 at night. There’s no consistency which is really scary in cases like this

i missed school a couple times in 4th grade and they never called my parents because they just assume the child is sick or something and is skipping a day.

when I was in middle school, if you missed a day, they never called. I’m guessing they just assume that the child is sick or is doing something more important (example: a funeral) but I did miss school a lot during that time so I don’t blame them, but if a child that never misses doesn’t come to school, they should call just in case because if Tabithas school called her parents she may have been found.

Not for older children they stop calling after elementary

He was molesting her or something to that extent.

I believe this to be true. He and his car match the description too much and if she knew him and rode in the car with him, no one would question it if she got in a car with the ex boyfriend. Maybe she thought he would take her home or to school or maybe he even threatened her to get in the car? When he was living with her,she started sleeping in her parents room. Idk it just makes the most sense to me.

It was a green car not a red one....

@@southernflower8106 One wittness said red & another wittness said green.

I agree with this theory but I wonder why LE didn't look into himmore. Did his family have wealth & connections? I'm just curious as to why nobody could find much about the cops or detectives checking out that guy. In my opinion, that theory makes the most sense. The description fits & she got into the car as if she knew the person.

@@southernflower8106 Color blind?

As crazy as it sounds after 18 years, I really think she could be. I don’t know why, but it’s a feeling I get.

I truly believe in my heart deep down , she’s still walking this earth

@@darkboltzz7596 Dude, me too. I have no evidence for it, but I genuinely feel that, despite the odds, Tabitha really is still alive.

@@superhoops5091 I seen that people were saying that they possibly seen her in Australia , Asia , Mexico & Las Vegas. If that’s true I’m happy she’s alive after all these years

Also, even if the child has run away, they're still a child! Being on out alone leaves young girls and boys open to human trafficking, kidnapping, sexual assault, and other violence. Runaway or not - children still need to be searched for and found.

I've actually done some research about this. I never realized how many resources the term "runaway" also strips away from a case. In Houston and Arizona (the areas I did my research on), classifying them as runaways means they don't place them in the system for all LE departments to be aware they are missing. One of the authors said in Arizona they are struggling to figure out, especially in foster situations, how many children are meeting foul play (even trafficking) via homes and parents not reporting them properly. =(

Agree! A child is a child whether they ran away or not. Kids make irrational decisions all the time because they are CHILDREN. every child that goes missing should be treated seriously!

LifeOfMelissa totally agree

Hailey Ronda excellent point.

Sheena Breaks my heart, I want babies, all ages, to be safe!!

There's articles on these crimes, it's pretty terrible, but apparently smtg to do with power, anger, thrill, etc and it's much easier for someone to attack another person half their size, age, etc. Can't believe our country is not more harsh on laws when it comes to this.

SheenaGJG there are some very sick people in this world

I can only hope that they aren't trying to be deceitful and truly believe in what they are doing. Otherwise I can't reconcile the amount of hurt they cause. It's heartbreaking.

Trust in Truth Tarot I agree about the psychics. They just wanted a few minutes of fame. I know there are amazing psychics out there who are spot on with what they pick up. Only if they can help solve this case.

No one has time to look for kids who just want attention, when we have kids who want to go home but can't because they were abducted. Yes, it sounds heartless but you gotta do what you gotta do, you can't help people that don't want to be helped.

Mara Exanimis u are truly heartless lol. First u say they want attention, then u say no one has time to help them when there’s more serious cases like abduction and then you said u can’t help people that don’t want to be helped. Can u not hear the constant contradictions? Majority of run away kids are from abusive homes, they don’t want attention, they want the exact opposite. To disappear to some sort of safe haven. It’s not that they don’t want to be helped, it’s that every time they’ve tried to get help, no one does anything! What other option would u have as a kid?! Being a kid in a situation like that doesn’t call for logic and rationality but moreso desperation. Plus the majority of “runaways” aren’t actually runaways and can’t be proved. Time and time again police have considered teenage girls run aways only to find out years later they were victims of heinous crimes like abduction/sexual assaualts and murders. Police just love throwing the label run away onto a case when they have no leads so it takes the pressure off of them. Less than half officially noted runaways are runaways. The kids that do runaway for attention are generally much younger than young adults, think preteen. Young adult runaways are mostly from dysfunctional homes riddled with substance issues/abuse/neglect etc and thus they seek out other methods to get attention and love (from strangers/chat rooms/friends etc) and they run away to escape; the complete opposite of wanting attention and the polar opposite of “don’t want to be helped”. Majority of abduction cases are first labeled runaways until a new lead so you trying to dismiss runaways as less important than “real” crimes like abduction (which most of them are anyway) is truly sick. U should be ashamed.

Jess M *AMEN!!!* Perfectly said!

Please please PLEASE tell the police that it could help them

Please let the police know! You never know who is really who. We can’t always fully trust people. And it’s never too late to let them know!

I really hope you told the police even though it’s a hunch she deserves any fighting chance she can get. Better to be safe than sorry

That's absurd and the police would dismiss that immediately. She wasn't stupid or impulsive according to anything anybody in her life has said. She wouldn't run away from a family that she loved to follow her best friend to Vegas. She was a child. What would she have been planning to do when she got there? The move was planned before she disappeared and happened afterwards, so what could you possibly find odd about it?? Was the family supposed to just not move because Tabitha was missing when they had probably already sold their house and everything? The alleged sighting in Vegas means nothing when you take in to account the fact that she was supposedly spotted all over the rest of the country as well. If I remember right there were also reports of possible sightings in the UK, Mexico and Australia. Probably other places too. I can understand maybe finding it odd as a child but not now that you are an adult. There's literally nothing suspicious about it.

I think the idea is there isn’t any information to include with the Amber Alert? Not saying we shouldn’t alert folks with at least a photo and name. But I think the idea is amber alerts typically tell you to look out for a girl wearing “a red shirt” who was last seen getting into a “green car”. I’m sure the idea is that getting details out helps them track them. Without details it’s hard to say what it brings. And I know sometimes there is concern that alerting an offender that police and folks are on high alert could cause them to act rash and harm the child. So maybe without details they are just deciding the risk doesn’t outweigh the possibility it would help? Not saying it’s not valid just trying to consider why they don’t use them for every situation.

Chessie Domrongchai you are so right!!!!

Chessie Domrongchai she's glowing!

Chessie Domrongchai I know I wish I could look half as good as her. She is so beautiful!! Her skin just glows and her makeup is so spot on. She is a gorgeous lady😊

Chessie Domrongchai She looks like Christina Applegate 😊

+Myranda Blue yes I was thinking the same thing

For sure a chat room connection needed investigation. T.T. & M.L.T. ? How many teens use 3 initials??

@@ragpickerc1139 MTL = My True Love

Oh wow. I can’t imagine being in the middle of all of this.

What do people around where you live believe happened?

Miss Mercury I moved from East Nashville years ago but most people believed she was kidnapped. After she went missing kids didn’t want to the bus stops alone, parents took turns to walk with a groups of kids who rode the bus and with the kids that walked to school

Kirsten, I grew up in east Nashville too, and her case was always the talk of the town. We drove by her house frequently, and it always broke my heart to see the poster still hanging on the porch or seeing her info on the back of her dad’s truck (he had decals made). Most people did believe she was kidnapped. I went to Bailey Middle School, and I would often go sit on the bench they have in her honor and just pray that she would be brought home.

My grandmother and my 2 youngest siblings lived on Lillian st. The same time. So sad!

It’s obvious in my opinion. I’m thinking that her sister caught her bf doing something to her younger sister and broke up with him , but never reported it to her parents . Sad .

Oh man, I can only imagine what some of that feels like. I’ve been through my own struggles, so I am happy I am able to help you out a little bit❤️❤️

Amanda Lewis Same :) I wish you all the best. May sun and people around you would help you feel better. Life is beautiful. You know that everything is in your mind. Keep fighting with that.xx

Egle Rinkeviciute Thank you so much!

Danelle Hallan you help more than you'll ever know 💜

Amanda Lewis Please have your Magnesium levels checked or get some from a health food store. Our soil is depleated and it's one mineral we need for 300 different functions. I've been taking it and Vitamin D3 and it's really been helping. I am a disabled incest victim caretaking my abuser. I have a ton of stress, Complex PTSD, chronic pain, etc. Be kind to yourself. No matter how you've been treated, you are loved. Best wishes for you. 💖

I know many people who were exactly the same which is why these two things connected so quickly for me. I wish more information was out on what they checked in the chats.

I am like your daughter. My life was online due to being bullied - it was my ‘safe’ place.. Agreed!!!!

SISTER KATHLEEN yep my daughter is 24 now but she reminded me of this little girl. 😞

Absolutely! Prayers for the family!

I hope the best for the family.😕

They leave their porch light on every single night in case she comes home :( Her mother I do know battled cancer and I do believe she passed a few years ago. I live right outside of Nash. The little town I live in has a racetrack that her family went to a lot and they do something for her each year on her birthday and I think April 29th, the day she went missing. I pray like Jaycee Dugard and other children that have come home after years of being missing she comes home too. Sadly I dont think Tabitha will have a happy ending like Jaycee and Elizabeth and Michelle Gina and Amanda etc.. But I hope she's still out there and will be brought home soon. Poor sweet girl. This case has always gotten to me, I guess since it's so close to home. Makes me even more realize how something could happen to my child... It scares me constantly and is my absolute worst fear.

I would never never allow my child to walk to school or bus stop alone to dangerous

so let me ask you this....Do you or your mother believe that her sister bf had anything to do with it?

I had not even considered this! Thank you for sharing!

Karui Omoi I was thinking this as well

ok you might be right but remember her mum said she couldn't even enter in her mums best friends car....so how can she trust a church member and not her mother's best friend..then about the red and green car why would two people say two different colours of the car and both have clues but I think the red car had more evidence... and about her "boyfriend" they did not even dig that much into him..he was also suspected to have a red car....

@Joan Gifford A very important, helpful comment you make, which can save many from so much heartbreak. Where there are children, there paedophiles place their focus. If I am ever blessed with a wife and children, I will not be allowing my kids under the unsupervised authority of anyone, whether it be a youth group, scouts, guides, etc. Today is more perilous than ever due too the harness of sexual decency and self control being loosened and thrown away and British society is now allowed, sanctioned by government, to fulfil their perversion and lust in various wicked ways. Depravity is rife. Your comments seem to me an important reminder to those watching these videos.

Juan Arredondo has since come forward, been interviewed and was cleared.

I thought this too

Dude, me too. It’s just this feeling I have...

Shauna Bellow, I had a similar experience when I too was 7 maybe 8. I was supposed to be riding my bike to my bestfriend at the times house. Either the night before or in the morning, my dad was supposed to add air to my tires or tire, I can't remember. He was working really long, hard days at the time and I think he simply forgot. I went anyways and at some point I had to get off and walk with my bike because one of them was flat. I was about half way to her house when a man in a smaller, boxy shaped car had slowly driven by me and he turned around and drove by me 2 more times while really looking at me. After the third time he pulled up next to me and he told me he was going to a dentist appointment and he couldn't find the office and did I know where it was and could I possibly help him look. I grew up in the 80s where there was the big stranger danger campaign. Not to mention you know how parents are they definitely drill into you not to talk to strangers and never get into a stranger's vehicle. So I don't remember exactly what I said other than not knowing who his dentist was and not helping him find it. I started to run with the bike and he took off the opposite way with his car. I do remember being scared and looking back over my shoulder. I must have more scared then I remember being as passerbyers clearly saw that I was panicked and running from something. we didn't really have cell phones back then. I think that might have been around the time where cell phones were first introduced and if you had one, they were huge and came in a bag that you had to carry around with you. Anyways some concerned passerbyer apparently called the cops once they got home and reported it. a cop came and talked to me and actually took me to my friends house. my friends mom and the cop wanted to call my parents so they both showed up. I don't know how much later it was because their shop was about a half hour from home. I remember my dad was so angry and upset with himself for forgetting to put air in my tires. At the time I knew that it was a scary situation but it was until I got a little older and was able to remember that it happened and look back at it that I realized that man was trying to kidnap me and who knows what would have happened if I had gotten in that car.

rebecca W I was thinking the same, we are the same age.

Same here. Would’ve been 13 in 2003. Such a heartbreaking case.

Same.. So sad

I think the two three letter ones are acronyms, like initials. So what if it’s actually the initials of two people? The ‘N’ being ‘and’...

Well said.

Something about Juan's cars set off an alarm for me. What I'm wondering is if maybe he approached her with one car and she didn't get in or he actually drove her to school - thus creating one of the sightings - and on a separate day - the day she was abducted - he used a different car and didn't take her to school. Idk he just freaks me out.

this case gives me the lovely bones vibes T_T tabitha tell us where you are honey

Em Radford That’s exactly what I thought too! It’s very common for kids/teens and even bands and businesses do it. It just makes the most sense

EXACTLY!!!!!! I am only a bit younger than her and I even remember before AOL when there were just random online chat rooms and I got asked the CREEPIEST things as well. It was and still is so dangerous

Yes i remember chatting with a guy i didn't even know on aol and i gave him my number and we talked a few times. I'm glad it only ever went that far!

Same here!! I remember talking to a grown man in his 30s while I was 12 and I didn't think it was weird at first until it carried from selfies to trying to court then pretty much control me, I honestly think he was from a different country too and it took me so long to catch on to how dangerous it was and my mom had no clue! I can't imagine, it's such a dangerous position to put yourself in but when we are that young you don't think about it the same way you do when you actually realize what could go wrong. I hope she's found safe, by god this should never happen to a child 😔

I was 11 in 2003 and I remember going to the access centre (in Aus - this a is a local place where you can use computers and the internet for a couple of dollars) and using chat rooms. My mum never had any idea. I never really met anyone in person but got some online friends. You get some super creepy people, especially in the ones created for teens. I so wish I could remember the name of the chat site I used to use - it was so bad on that in particular and it was aimed specifically for teens!

Em Radford I'm sure grown men went there looking for teens to groom.

Then why isn't he arrested? Or is it because he's a man?

weirdo whale I think it's that Mexican dude , a has not come out to talk nobody can find him and also it matches what everyone says also she could have met him chat aswell maybe not and wtf was he doing in the neighborhood if he not even from there and his 2 cars matches the decription

I think boyfriend, too

@@fext8503 Juan Arredondo has since come forward, been interviewed and was cleared.

I've lived here all my life and yes, the East Nashville you know is not the East Nashville it used to be.

@@smallgay6000 i have lived here all my life in Nashville and i have two daughter's the same age and when this happened i never let them walk to the bus stop again ever they are 28&29 now and my heart breaks for this family your always in my prayers 🙏🙏💝🙏🙏

I agree!!!! An entire YEAR of meals planned. It makes my heart happy❤️

😭😭😭 thank you!!!

Absolute same! She's my very favourite crime youtuber and one of my top favourite youtubers in general!

mary I know where I went to school you could literally not show up for a week or two and they wouldn't call home. It's actually really sad now that I think about it.

My mom gets a phone call if I'm five minutes late to class. So annoying to me until I watched this and other cases like hers.

Kayla Flowers I'm pretty sure it is this way everywhere...

Insha I it wasn't where she lived at the time , some schools don't tell parents until after school

@@inshai9685 yes now its this way. They get an automated call saying their child missed class etc

Alexis Ashcraft maybe we can call the agency or media and just voice the desire to see a report. To keep people aware and new eyes to be out.

Vic not Vicky Wilson That's a great idea.

The garden is located at Bailey Middle School. I was a student there, along with Tabitha, when all of this happened. The school has since been renamed to something else now, but that memorial still remains.

Yeah I think most of the time the media only reports on things that attractive people involved in including missing people, really anything for that matter. And before I forget you must indeed be white and attractive or just white and it probably helps if you have 💰 money. Sad part is you can be black and attractive and I never see any missing media reports on tv about black people. Really I can only rhink of one maybe 2 teenage girls in 20+ year that was black that the media had coverage on, but not very much coverage maybe one or 2 briefly missing picture and report maybe mention the name. Hispanic a few I've seen but again not that many. Asian people nothing I've seen in the media that I can think of. So very disturbing in my opinion.

@@valeriestansberry4650 it really is a thing. white, middle to upper class, attractive women without a "messy" background get the most media coverage. God forbid if you're non-white, poor, a drug addict, sex worker, male, etc. you don't fit into the "perfect victim" mold and you're probably not gonna get much attention at all.

Thank you so much❤️❤️

Not true. There was a hound dog that tracked a kidnapped boys scent miles down a busy highway then down an exit ramp. They found his body not long after.

KissSimina if she cared so much about her school attendance the person could’ve promised to take her to school and get her there on time

for example.

i completely agree and think that this is linked to the chat rooms she went on!

But the one flaw is, why wasn’t she nervous? Had she done this multiple times before with this person?

Haley Martin i’m thinking maybe she really trusted someone from the chat room and then wasn’t bothered about it! it could also be the sisters ex boyfriend or even a relative of one of her ‘grandparents’ who she had seen while at their house who she trusted but had completely the wrong intentions

Cheyanne Howe 😄😁😆

Cheyanne Howe lol funny I made the same comment about grabbing a snack on a lordan arts video and I got attacked and told I was insensitive for commenting that on a missing person video..this channel must have a nicer audience lol

butrflysings01 They didn't think of it first, that's why. I loveJohn's channel, I rarely comment because of that. I'm grateful for comic relief. These vids can be intense.,

Tia GUILE yes I get attacked for almost anything I say over there so I don't comment anymore. I agree it's heavy sometimes and a little comedy is needed!

Charlotte Coleman same

Yup🤩

Same!

You are all amazing❤️

Me too. Everytime.