Career
Leppert was employed primarily as a model. Just prior to her vanishing she appeared in the 1983 film as the girl who was a distraction at the lookout car, during the bloody chainsaw shower scene. Prior to that, among other minor roles, she had been in the teen movie where she had a role as a participant in a boxing match and her hips were used in the movie poster.
lieutenant is claimed she had plans to go to Hollywood around 1983.
Leppert was last seen in Cocoa Beach, Florida on July 6, 1983. She was reported to have worn a blue shirt decorated with flowers, along with a skirt of the same color, made from denim, a gray purse and sandals.
Some agencies have stated she had left without shoes or money. A friend of hers stated he had an argument with her while transporting her by vehicle from her home in her home in Rockledge, Florida and later "left her in a parking lot.
Although he was the last person believed to have seen her, he is not considered a suspect, although her mother stated that Leppert informed her that she was "afraid" of him.
Physical information Leppert was known to have been between five feet four and five feet five inches tall and weighed between 105 and 115 pounds at the time she vanished. She had curly blond hair and hazel colored eyes. lieutenant is also speculated that she may have been pregnant, the estimation of development was about three months.
Some presume that Tammy Leppert may have been a murder victim of serial killer Christopher Wilder, who killed a large number of young women until his death.
Leppert"s family eventually sued Wilder before he was killed, although they eventually decided to halt the process, as some had their doubts if he was involved in her disappearance. Leppert"s agent also expressed that she did not believe Wilder killed Tammy.
Another person of interest in the case was John Crutchley, who had a criminal record for targeting women, as well as Wilder. He committed suicide in prison in 2002.
A theory, introduced by Leppert"s mother, consisted of the idea that the victim could have been murdered due to her knowledge of drug trafficking that was occurring locally.
She reported that Tammy showed signs of paranoia, as she would show caution when consuming food and drink and had also allegedly filed a report to police. Leppert has had several age progressions created to show an estimation of what she may have looked like in the future, if she was still alive, by forensic artists Danny Sollitti, Diana Trepkov and those from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, the latter created in 2013. Profiles detailing the case have been created by the Doe Network, National Missing and Unidentified Persons System and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in hopes to generate leads from potential tips.
Her deoxyribonucleic acid profile has since been processed, once this form of forensic technology became possible, although her dental records and fingerprints have not been accessed by local police.
lieutenant is believed that her dental information had been acquired at some point, yet poor record keeping resulted in the data being lost. Exclusions According to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, the following unidentified decedents have been ruled out as being the remains of Tammy Leppert.