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12 Days of Updates (#10: Tiffany Nelson)

Unresolved

Unresolved Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

This is an update for episode #42, which detailed the disappearance and death of 9-year-old Tiffany Nelson from Augusta, Georgia. Tiffany disappeared in June of 1994 and her remains wouldn't be found until 2005, but her case continues to be looked at...


Researched, written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan

This is Day #10 of my new holiday-themed series, the 12 Days of Updates. Over the next couple of days, I'll continue catching up on some stories I've previously covered and detail what we've learned in the months/years since.

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In June of 1994, a little girl from Augusta, Georgia would go missing.

0:10.2

On June 6th of that year, 9-year-old Tiffany Elizabeth Nelson was living with her aunt

0:15.3

and guardian, or a Mac, having lost her mother two years prior.

0:19.9

It was actually the first day of summer break, and Tiffany, a rambunctious tomboy who loved

0:25.6

to ride her bike on any occasion, set off on a morning adventure.

0:29.9

Since the tires on her bike were starting to get a bit flat, Tiffany rode down to a nearby

0:34.5

Amaco gas station and convenience store, where she was spotted by numerous witnesses using

0:40.0

the air pumps.

0:41.0

However, a short time later, when Tiffany failed to return home, she was reported missing.

0:46.9

The same investigator that handled the millbrook case a couple of years prior, Detective Jim

0:51.6

Shipp, was sent to oversee the investigation, which quickly stagnated.

0:56.2

Tiffines were conducted throughout the area, and the closest to lead that investigators

1:00.7

found as to Tiffany's whereabouts was the report that she had been spotted in the back of

1:05.2

a car driving away from her last known location, about four miles west.

1:10.1

Despite this, it is not believed that police suspected any foul play, and Tiffany's case

1:15.4

was treated as nothing more than a normal missing persons report, that is, until over

1:20.0

a decade later, in May of 2005, when Tiffany's remains were discovered in a rural area

1:26.2

roughly 15 miles south from where she had last been seen.

1:30.2

Because her remains were discovered in neighboring Burke County, the GBI was brought into oversee

1:35.3

forensic testing, and they confirmed that the remains were indeed that of nine-year-old

1:40.0

Tiffany Nelson, who had disappeared more than a decade beforehand.

1:43.9

Due to so much time having passed, there was not much evidence that police could find,

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