Through the Cracks

Dateline: Missing In America

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🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Sixteen-year-old Tiffany Reid vanished from Shiprock, New Mexico, on the short walk to Shiprock Northwest High School, on May 17, 2004. A few days later, some of her belongings were discovered scattered along the side of the highway in Arizona, about an hour west of her home. Dateline’s Josh Mankiewicz talks to Tiffany’s older sister, Deiandra Reid, about the long journey for answers and the obstacles her family has faced in the search for Tiffany. Josh also speaks with Tiffany Jiron, Executive Director of the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women, who discusses the murdered Indigenous women crisis, and shares information about a new step New Mexico has taken to help when Native Americans go missing. Tiffany was 5’3” and 115 lbs. at the time of her disappearance. She has dark black hair and brown eyes. Tiffany would be 37 years old today. Anyone with information about Tiffany’s case should call the Navajo Nation Police Department Shiprock District at 505-368-1350. Get more information and see pictures, including an age-progression, of Tiffany Reid here: https://www.nbcnews.com/datelinemissing

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0:00.0	Getting a 16-year-old off to school on time is no easy job.
0:10.0	Tiffany was the type that really took care of herself.
0:13.0	For a girl like Tiffany Reed, appearances mattered.
0:17.0	From hair to makeup to picking the right outfit.
0:21.4	She did her hair different every day.
0:24.3	She was really into her style.
0:27.1	Monday, May 17, 2004 was no different for Tiffany.
0:31.7	She asked you to take her to school that last day.
0:34.8	Yeah, she did.
0:36.2	She was running late.
0:38.2	That is Deandra Reed, Tiffany's older sister.
0:42.2	I had gone off working a graveyard shift,
0:46.2	so I didn't have the energy to get up and drive her to school.
0:51.5	That morning, Tiffany set out on foot for Shiprock Northwest High School
0:56.9	in New Mexico. Was it common for her to walk to school? Yeah, it wasn't far. The school year was
1:04.2	almost over, summer nearly in Tiffany's reach. Except that day, Tiffany did not come home after school.
1:13.6	There are times that she would not come straight home from school, but she would still call my mom
1:20.3	to let her know.
1:23.6	That call never came, and Tiffany never made it home.
1:28.3	That was 21 years ago.
1:32.3	I just want to know where she is.
1:35.3	I'm Josh Manquowitz and this is Missing in America, a podcast from Dateline.
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