Tiffany Whitton
Tiffany Whitton was what you might call a troubled woman. For one thing, the 26-year-old was shoplifting at two in the morning at a suburban Georgia Walmart on September 13, 2013, and no one finds themselves in that situation when things are going great. She was stopped by employees when she tried to leave the store with her partner in drugs and life, a man named Ashley Caudle, and after a brief struggle, she slipped free of the purse strap an employee was holding and also her shoes and ran out into the night and apparently off the face of the earth.
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Once her family and police got wind of the situation—and it took a while because, again, Whitton’s lifestyle wasn’t incompatible with long absences—they didn’t have to look far for an explanation. Caudle is seen on Walmart security footage passively standing by as Whitton fled, understandably angry that she’d drawn attention to them when he was a drug dealer carrying all the trappings of drug dealing on his person or in his nearby truck, though he later bragged to friends that he’d pulled a knife or a gun on the Walmart employees. To be clear, it’s plain to see from the security footage that he didn’t. It was one of many bizarre and easily disproven lies he told.
He was seen a short time later on the bench at the IHOP across the street where Whitton used to work by one of Whitton’s ex-coworkers; according to her, he asked her if Whitton was there, and when she asked him if he’d tried calling Whitton, he produced his girlfriend’s phone, explaining that he’d been charging it. That was weird because he told others that he had tried calling Whitton, though his phone records showed he hadn’t. He was then picked up by some friends, with whom he drove around looking for Whitton, but not before stopping by one of their homes to do drugs, so like, they weren’t too pressed about it.
He also didn’t alert any authorities to Whitton’s disappearance for two weeks. Her mother believes she ran to his truck, where they got in a fight and he killed her or she overdosed and he covered it up, but without a shred of evidence beyond general shadiness, there wasn’t much to be done. Still, when Caudle was eventually arrested on drug charges, he was sentenced particularly harshly in part because he “refused to cooperate” with authorities on Whitton’s disappearance. They later received a tip that Caudle had been seen dropping a barrel off a bridge, and upon investigation, they did find such a barrel underneath it.
Open and shut, right? Not even close. For one thing, to have killed Whitton or watch her die and dispose of her body before he was seen at the IHOP would have required remarkable efficiency, and to put it politely, Caudle didn’t strike anyone as the ruthlessly competent type. While his phone records showed no calls to Whitton’s phone, they did show numerous calls to area hospitals and jails, apparently in search of her. That barrel under the bridge? It was full of concrete. Not the kind that encases a body, just concrete.
It started to seem as likely as anything that Caudle was just kind of a spacey tweaker who lied a lot for no reason, but then what happened to Tiffany? Did she run into the nearby woods? They contained no trace of her. Did she get into a car with a stranger?
Maybe? According to her brother, she called him just after his next birthday, about four months later. He knew it was her because she called him by her nickname for him, but he apparently didn’t get any information out of her. He might have conflated a call from the previous year with a Facebook message posted that year wishing him a happy birthday, because someone did use Whitton’s phone to do that, but if she did call him, it’s the only trace of her that’s ever turned up. Authorities didn’t know about it until a journalist interviewed him in 2016 because … he hadn’t told them.
Tiffany Daniels
Usually when people go unwillingly missing, those responsible are the ones to act shifty, but 25-year-old Tiffany Daniels was acting weird well before her disappearance. She hadn’t been “her bubbly self” and became withdrawn, although that could easily have been explained by a previously short-distance relationship becoming a long-distance one after her boyfriend left Florida for school in Texas the day before she disappeared in 2013. What couldn’t be explained was why she got up and left the house so early the next morning when she was typically a “roll out of bed and all the way to work” type of person and told her boss she would need a few days off because she had some “things she had to take care of.” That’s usually a Pulp Fiction situation, not something in which a professional theater tech often finds themselves, and indeed, her parents reported that it was very unlike her to make plans like that without telling anyone about them.
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