Vanished: Where Is Tabitha Tuders?
April 29, 2003 started out completely normal, exactly like hundreds of other days had in the East Nashville home of the Tuders family. Debra Tuders woke up first, getting ready for work in the predawn darkness. When she got out of bed, she had to step over her 13-year-old daughter, Tabitha, who was curled up on the floor at the foot of her parents’ bed. Tabitha had her own room, and a purple canopy bed she loved. She went to sleep each night in her bed, but more often than not she would wake up in the middle of the night, drag her blanket into her parents’ room, and curl up on a makeshift bed of pillows on their floor. It just made her feel secure. It may have been odd, but she wasn’t hurting anything, so her parents let her do it. Debra was used to stepping over her as she got ready for work, it was just another part of the morning routine.
