Tammy Lynn Leppert
And Then They Were Gone
Little Monster Productions
4.3 • 971 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Eighteen-year-old model and actress Tammy Lynn Leppert walked away from a car near Cocoa Beach’s Glass Bank on July 6, 1983—and vanished. Weeks earlier, the once-outgoing pageant star told family she’d “seen something awful” and feared someone was going to kill her. In this episode, we trace her life and rising career, the sudden shift to paranoia, the last confirmed moments at the beach, the investigative missteps, and the leading theories that have shadowed this case for more than four decades.
If you have information about the July 6, 1983 disappearance of Tammy Lynn Leppert (Rockledge/Cocoa Beach, FL):
- Cocoa Beach Police Department: 321-868-3251
- National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC): 1-800-THE-LOST
- Case references: NamUs MP #1376, NCMEC/NCIC #M104282291
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| 1:22.8 | On July 6th, 1983, 18-year-old Tammy Lynn Leppert left her home in Rockledge, Florida with a friend |
| 1:30.6 | for what was supposed to be a fun day at the beach. Tammy was a budding actress who had landed |
| 1:36.1 | small roles in movies like Scarface and Spring Break. But in the weeks leading up to that |
| 1:41.4 | summer day, she had been acting strangely. |
| 1:49.8 | She told her mother that she'd seen something awful and even feared that someone was trying to kill her. That afternoon, she got into an argument with her friend, and he dropped Tammy off |
| 1:56.5 | alone near Cocoa Beach's landmark glass bank building. She made a few urgent phone calls from a |
| 2:02.7 | nearby pay phone and then vanished without a trace. Decades have passed without any sign of |
| 2:08.5 | the teenager. What happened to Tammy Lynn Leppert? When a person goes missing, there's a special |
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