Could very well be two different things. She had mental health issues and nobody wanted to hurt her. Keith dropped her off after their discussion and being in obvious need of help wandering down the street she was picked up by a predator.
I think this is most likely what happened. Probably hitchhiked somewhere since hitch hiking was a thing in the early 80's. Just happened to get picked up by the wrong person(s).
This! Predators look for vulnerable people. A beautiful woman without ever a pair of shoes in emotional distress and having mental issues sounds like an opportunistic killers wishlist
Yes, the entire narration (and description of her behavior) fits extremely well with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. At 18 she was within the typical onset age, which often involves a sudden psychotic break after a prolonged prodromal stage with mild and transient symptoms. When she disappeared she would have been highly vulnerable to exploitation, accident, abduction, or even self-harm. Unfortunately, it often happens that the judgment of acute onset schizophrenia is missed during an initial mental health examination, especially (as in Tammy's case) if pre-onset behavioral and psychological functioning has been healthy and successful.
Possibly, but it usually starts around the early/mid 20's, while not impossible at 18, its not usual. Could be from drugs, drugs could also cause earlier onsets of schizophrenia.
Sounds like she was invited to one of those Hollywood initiation “parties” in which she probably wanted no part of, and threatened to keep her mouth shut.
Strange how the police just let that Keith guy off so easily. These days he would be the main suspect. I think it was either that Keith guy possibly paid to lure Tammy away from her house. Perhaps that's why they were arguing in the car he might have let it slip then when he dumped her in that parking lot the dealers picked her up. But she could have also set this while thing up to get away from an overbearing mother who was just using her as well. Perhaps she had enough of show business and wanted a fresh start. She seemed a lot smarter than she ever let on and with wanting to become a nurse instead. But not contacting her sister after their mother died puts a hole in that theory unless Tammy herself died before she could make contact. It's one of those mysteries that has a high chance of never being solved fully.
According to Unsolved Mysteries, after she was dropped off by Keith, she left multiple messages for her aunt. If Keith has an alibi for his time after those messages were left, then that may have ruled him out in the eyes of the police.
Something happend to her on the movie set. She wasn't the same afterwards. MOst likely witnessed something she wasn't suppose to see or was dragged into illicit behavior or situation (as movie sets seem to be a haven for) then was silenced b/c of it.
She might’ve been hit with that “Spanish fly” by a casting couch style producer who got mad when she turned him down or something along those lines. Sometimes being drugged can cause mental illness to onset. (And I don’t mean the expected trauma response, I mean it can cause full blown breaks with reality in some cases)
@@Thor-Orion Especially if they are haullucinogenics altho not sure what Spanish Fly consists of. Very plausible, greasy producers and conniving set workers are the norm when it comes to preying on the cast. I wouldn't doubt she had a stalker after her.
she went to an 'industry party' and she completely changed afterwards. We know enough about those cluster fkd parties they have for hopefuls that don't get any further than fillers at the party from kappy. She got groomed, discarded. And the industry that did that to her.. continues to hold parties.
They have these same “parties” in Universities. I was invited to one in 1981 at Macalester. The football team players were from New York and hard core druggies who were going on and on how important it was to make the bathrooms on the dorm floors unisex. A lot of things have played out over the decades to make sense of the nonsense that was present in those weekends. I was given a special drink and weed and it all seemed so innocent, until it wasn’t. After I made a fuss one of the guys began talking to me like a high powered lawyer how “in situations like this I could just speak to the other guy’s family council for a settlement and I would have to sign a non-disclosure agreement.” Mind you, we were all 18-19ish. But their lives had been vastly different from mine, and they all knew it.
Things to consider: 1 ) the clinic cleared her - yes the clinic could have done a shoddy job of evaluating and 72 hours observing her, but the fact is they did clear her and release her. 2 ) she didnt tell the police that she worried her life is targeted, also she didnt tell her mother the details of what she saw, she told no one the details - that means she has been threatend to stay silent or her mom would be harmed too, that is what that indictates to me, most wont speak if they worry that speaking would endanger a loved one. 3 ) has anyone considered witness protection? maybe she reached out and didnt tell anyone, maybe that is what she and her friend Kieth, did that day she disappeared and why he refused to be interviewed for Unsolved Mysteries when they did an episode covering her case? Has the police ever released the details Kieth's statements? I doubt it. 4 ) all accounts about Tammy's behavior is hearsay, opinions from her family and friends. Tammy is not around to defend her behavior nor explain it. Something to think about. But without her remains, no body, no evidence of her, she is completely gone.
Going to add that the extreme changes of behavior after the party and the fear of being poisoned that arose post party indicate to me that she probably was drugged, and possibly assaulted at said party. Couple that with the "elites" being accused and you have a good sketch of what might have happened, and the reason she was vanished. The "she might have been three months pregnant" revelation in the video lines up with it as well.
I was once watching Scarface and my brother told me the blonde lady who walked up to the car disappeared in real life. I’ve been hooked to this case ever since. Good episode!
The conclusions make zero sense. A random abduction, possibly from someone who offered her a ride and whom she felt comfortable with getting in the car (perhaps the woman who called the police*) and then murdered is the most plausible explanation since she was seen walking down a highway barefoot by several witnesses, and it was her demand to be let out of the car, not his. A random drop off would preclude her being targeted unless these hypothetical someone's just happened to be driving down the same highway she was walking at the exact same time AND recognized who she was while driving then dragging her into the car in broad daylight w/no one noticing would be an awfully big coincidence. Sounds to me like she was given G H B at the party and subsequently assaulted, something that wasn't commonly known about in 1983. That would explain her sudden behavioral change and paranoia about being poisoned. *There are plenty of examples of husband/wife teams kidnapping women.
I think a life centered around beauty pageants, appearance, modeling can lead to a vacuous sense of identity and purpose. She was clearly unstable (let’s not all turn pro and start labeling her with diagnoses) and d I think she met up with foul play and is probably not alive and was still alive shortly after the last time she was seen. She was vulnerable.
Tammy was killed by Paul Land (Callandrillo), her costar in Spring Break. She was pregnant by him, which was going to ruin her acting and modeling career, where Land was selling large quantities of coke. Land disposed of her in the swamp to let the alligators do what they do. Land eventually became a made man in the mafia.
@@CheyenneCribbs I figured that the BQ likely stands for Beauty Queen, but I was never able to come up with how WO related to Paul Land. I’m unsure if removing the reveals at the end of the article after some number of days is what happens on that site or not. But I had tracked that item when it was first posted, and well remember when the reveal was posted. The “lead actor who used to be A+ list but is now B list with a disfigured face” was revealed as Mickey Rooney.
I grew up in Lakeland, but my mom was born in Kendall Lakes and lived there at the time. I've looked into this case alot, and while it certainly could have been a money laundering/cartel situation (the local government was indeed super corrupt), I wonder if she might have had a bad psychedelic experience at that party? Mushrooms and acid have always been really popular there, amphetamines too which cause paranoid psychosis.
I've always hated the Christopher Wilder theory in this case. it reeks of lazy detective work to me. The reasons given for suspecting him are the reasons I doubt it was him.Tammy was a working model in the area and her mom owned/ran a modeling company. It doesn't seem very likely that she would go off with some random guy claiming to be a photographer, especially given how paranoid she was before she went missing
That’s the one thing about this case. This woman was supposedly paranoid and terrified for her life, but she jumped out of her friend’s car and ran off? That doesn’t make any sense. Rodgers was the last to see Leppert alive. He needed to be looked at a little more closely.
This just breaks my heart.💔I wonder what happened to Tammy? She was beautiful and had her whole life ahead. So very sad.😢Her mom never found out, what happened to her daughter. 😢
Absolutely stunningly beautiful. I think she might have been drugged at that party (they mention refusing to drink out of open topped cups afterwards) and was abused. Then maybe the guy got scared she would report him and then ended her life.
Swim in the ocean? I myself have friends who went for a swim during the night from mental health stuff, they just aren't in their right mind. Foul play seems a reach in this case
Clearly mental health issues with Tammy leading up to her disappearance. She had issues separating reality and fantasy her reaction to a staged shooting on set is not normal, smashing the windows on her own home, the paranoia of being poisoned, people are out to kill her, argument with Keith leaving the vehicle barefoot. I'd lean more to death by misadventure she needed medication possible schizophrenia. A rational individual would be able to articulate exactly what they saw and why people are out to get them, we don't get any of that from Tammy. Unfortunate that her body was never found or properly identified so we are left with speculation. I just don't see evidence that anyone was out to get her, it's possible that she ran into someone meaning her harm after leaving the car, she just as easily could of drowned been swept out to sea.
It could be that she knew too much about a drug ring but why not also think she may have rejected a guy who tried wooing her and when she said no he ended her life?!
I think she was drugged at the party (the video mentions she was “paranoid” about drinking out of open faced glasses) and assaulted and then the guy got scared that she would talk and maybe heard about her getting committed and talking to the sheriff and decided to end her life.
Being beautiful doesn't make life easier it makes it harder because you are a target can have a true friend. Every man you date can't handle it and there for projects that on to you in the for of abuse. You are certainly not privileged. You are lonely and disappointed in the world and afraid of the threats you face every day 😢
1:25 The funniest thing I ever heard a 4 year old say, was when my sister tried to get my then 4 yo niece to enter pageants like her older sister, who was about 8. My niece 'That's your dream mom, not mine.'
I feel that she witnessed a ritual at the party in which caused her to become paranoid and that when she left with Keith her paranoia caused an argument between them and Keith accidentally killed her trying to calm her down. Keith panicked and hid her body and came up with a plausible story.
What about theory that she ran away cause she knew too much or she went willingly but she’s alive? I mean one way of not being found is you yourself don’t want to be. Which fits in with easiest answer to why her body never found… she’s not dead?
U think after all these years though if she was alive living under a fake name someplace that she would have been busted by now... She would have popped up somewhere after 40 years. But, stranger things have happened so...
I think it is plausible that she was silenced for knowing something and I won't completely discount that theory, but I also think it's pretty likely that this could've just been a random act of violence as well. It could be that she was struggling with an undiagnosed mental illness, maybe something along the lines of schizophrenia. An unaccompanied, mentally ill woman walking down the road would be a pretty easy target for a sick person. Regardless of whatever happened to Tammy, I hope she's at peace now.
Absurd conclusion, straight out of a bad movie. What exactly did Tammy Leppert "know" about drugs gangs or powerful elites that couldn't be denied? Tammy Leppert's behavior indicates she had mental health issues.
I basically agree with the most likely theory that she seen or heard something that she shouldn't have. But I don't think that a random attack should be ruled out. She was a very attractive young woman walking by herself along the road....no shoes and possibly visible upset. Some A-hole could have offered her a ride and took advantage of the situation. Wouldn't be the first time that type of thing happened.
I think she was being watched and followed she stands out given her beauty, she would stand out in a crowd, she won 280 crowns of 300 beauty pageants a theory i havent heard of is she could have had a friend arrange witness protection and never said goodbye to her family because she didnt want them involved
I love your show, but it seems you missed the mark on this one. There is no evidence linked to the crime. Also, it sounds like she was developing schizophrenia. She was the right age for it be in onset (18 to 21). Also, criminal enterprises in money laundering and drugs, those guys don't poison like she feared. Those guys shoot and stab. Further, if she did "know" something why didn't she say anything, she had lots of friends and family, telling a secret is the best step to protect ones self. But she kept this dangerous secret, most likely because her secret was schizophrenic paranoia. Her not brushing her hair before leaving for the beach is a detail that supports my theory, personal hygiene is the first thing to go with mentally ill people. It seems she wandered the streets of Florida, paranoid, and became a homeless person and died in abject poverty and metal illness. There is no body most likely because, as a vagabond, they travel and she could have lived for years being a homeless schizophrenic and died at the age of 40 or something completely unrecognizable.
too many are saying that, which is kinda sus given she vanished with no trace that is the odd fact that debunks the "she was just paranoid" "she was schizo" she vanished with zero trace, no trace even after 40 years nothing most cases people will leave something or turn up later. she is erased
What? Her mother's belief that she was murdered is definitely not the simplest solution. How do you quote a logical deductive principle only to instantly throw it out with one of the more convoluted explanations for what happened? The simplest answer is that she was suffering from a mental illness and possibly ran away or ended her life. That requires zero interaction with any other person, and thus, logically, that is the simplest answer. Murder, especially ones involving the upper echelon, is an extremely complicated answer. If you are going to use Occam's razor, then actually follow the logical process. Don't jump the shark. You can find a LOT of similar cases where people grow overly paranoid and start to suspect their food is poisoned in manic episodes. The clue should be that she thought home cooked meals were also poisoned, which isn't a rational belief even if you did witness a murder. SMH. Please don't pretend to use logical reasoning to make yourself seem smarter or to give your own theories more weight if you aren't actually going to apply the very principle you appeal to. This is the absence of logic, it's a logical fallacy. Which makes me feel like you are using other people's trauma to benefit yourself. Because you don't have a genuine desire to engage with these cases from a genuine logical point of view. It's low-key disgusting. I have watched 4 videos of yours, and 3 of them, you throw out logic in favor of fallacy to support your own opinions over the most likely logical conclusion. Maybe instead of saying "what most likely happened," you should just say. My opinion on what happened is, blah blah blah. Bastardizing logic and trauma for your own gain. Gross.
Not knowing what happened to her must be torture. I feel sorry for her mother, family, and friends. I hope she is found after 41 years. 😢. I wish someone would just come forward after so many years. How people can take these events to their grave is beyond me.
Making dangerous accusations without evidence suggests you aren't a reliable source of information. Hollywood has helped many youths and will continue to do so
@@cccaaaa-el5qf you know nothing of that industry or maybe you align with what they do to their youths, and I mean the very unpleasant things they do to their youths look into Shirley Temple, Drew Barrymore's childhood, Cory Haim, Cory Feldman, Judy Garland's younger years, just to name a few off a long list
No one ever suspected her mother? Tammy had broken out the windows of her mother's home and according to her friends, had trouble at home and wanted to leave. Her mother was the source of most of the rumors and speculations in this case. Most of which are unsubstantiated. We are just supposed to take her word for it. She even tried to make Keith look suspicious by claiming Tammy was afraid of him. If she was so scared, why did she call him to come get her that day? Then there are those mysterious anonymous phone calls made to the police claiming Tammy was alive. Those calls came from a woman.
Oh, and aren't most pageant moms controlling and living vicariously through their daughters? If Tammy, who was on the cusp of stardom, left her, no more glory or financial gains for Linda either.
I never met her but I was living close by and spent a lot of time at Summers on the beach where part of the movie Sping Break was filmed. Not sure where on A1A she was dropped off at but I'm assuming anywhere between the Yankee Clipper on the south end of the beach and Sunrise Blvd where the Elbo Room starts the club scene heading north, The Candy Store a gay bar was there, Summers, a biker bar, there would have been people all over because no open container laws yet so you could wander from one club to the next, drink in hand. Weird Al was there and Jim Dandy from Black Oak Arkansas. I personally think someone slipped her some animal Tranq in a drink, but honestly anything could have happened to cause the paranoia.
Alright let’s all agree she was (either knowingly or not) drugged in that party and that triggered a psychotic episode 😊 We all know that one person who went completely skizophrenic/paranoid after the first and only time they tried a drug ….
I simply think she was killed because she knew information about something that she shouldn't; most likely a drug ring where she lived or worked or both.
@@SpicyTexan64 If it affected their bottom line, she's gone. Maybe Biden's long lost brother got her? Or perhaps she saw what they do to people who don't pay up?
Women tend to develop schizophrenia starting in their early 20’s, it can happen younger but in most cases the symptoms onset sometime between early twenties and early thirties. She was 18, and the symptoms typically don’t onset dramatically all of a sudden, there are typically some early indications of it before it develops into the full fledged symptoms.
where is the body? so many keep saying schizo WHERE IS THE BODY? saying she is schizo doesnt explain the big issue that she VANISHED saying she is schizo feels more like a sweep under a rug to avoid the 'elephant in the room', she saw something she shouldnt have at a wrap party in the film industry that is notorious for wrong doing, so just chalking it up to "she was schizo" doesnt cut it, that is lazy conclusion, where is her remains?
@@86BarbOmega you’re certainly entitled to your own opinion, however I don’t believe anyone here are sweeping anything under the rug. Schizophrenia is the most likely reason she DISAPPEARED based on the KNOWN EVIDENCE. As to where her body is (if she is deceased), who the heck knows?! It doesn’t negate her strange and paranoid behavior. Could she be out there somewhere living life? Sure, it’s possible, but highly unlikely. Lots of people who missing and never found after many years are most likely dead too. Where are their bodies? Again, who knows?
Sounds like she had a mental break. Was given or took something at the party and it has sparked an episode. I think that is what cause the erratic behavior and paranoia. She didn't tell the truth about where she was going what was her relationship with Keith. Seemed to have alot of male friends. She could have taken off as Keith said, I heard many stories of people taking something or bizarrely just running off into the woods/water and either found drowned or still missing. I wonder what her and Keith were really doing as she hadn't brushed her normally groomed hair or took her bikini so that story does not make sense. Sad for the sister losing her sister and mum at a young age.
@FrankieBlueEyes I think she's shocked her mother would do this, because it would paint an even bigger target on her daughter's back if she indeed, "knew too much."
Pretty girls have it hard. They don't have an easier life as it is told. They are target's not only for every weirdo out there but can never have a true female friend and every boyfriend is intimated and scared shitless. Men can't handle a beautiful woman so he torments with his jealousy and possessiveness. He strips her of her true self. No her life is not easy 😢
How did she go to a mental institution and they found nothing. Obvious mental issues mom knew about but preferred to believe otherwise. She probably did away with herself.
It’s a shame, she looks like how I imagine Jean Bennet Ramsey to look like had she been given the chance to grow up. I completely disagree with this theory though. I believe that she took something at that party that triggered the onset of schizophrenia.
Seems to me she was having mental health issues. Refusing to eat and drink could be a sign of schizophrenia. All though its not certain there are other mental health issues that can have similar symptoms. For all we know she could have been murdered, acidentially killed herself, heck she might have had a complete mental breakdown and still be alive out there somewhere.
i dont consider the mental health stuff a lot of that is accounts from her mom and friends, and yet the clinic cleared her, now one could say the clinic didnt do a good job, ok but i think she was "bumped off" and disposed of professionally because WHERE IS THE BODY?
A newxvideo, on a well-known cold case, that brought nothing new to the table. If you know this case, don't bother with this video. It's a waste of time
Could very well be two different things. She had mental health issues and nobody wanted to hurt her. Keith dropped her off after their discussion and being in obvious need of help wandering down the street she was picked up by a predator.
I think this is most likely what happened. Probably hitchhiked somewhere since hitch hiking was a thing in the early 80's. Just happened to get picked up by the wrong person(s).
This! Predators look for vulnerable people. A beautiful woman without ever a pair of shoes in emotional distress and having mental issues sounds like an opportunistic killers wishlist
It amazes me how clueless her mom was, this girl was mentally-unraveling for sometime before she just vanished...
I believe it was schizophrenia
Yes, the entire narration (and description of her behavior) fits extremely well with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. At 18 she was within the typical onset age, which often involves a sudden psychotic break after a prolonged prodromal stage with mild and transient symptoms. When she disappeared she would have been highly vulnerable to exploitation, accident, abduction, or even self-harm. Unfortunately, it often happens that the judgment of acute onset schizophrenia is missed during an initial mental health examination, especially (as in Tammy's case) if pre-onset behavioral and psychological functioning has been healthy and successful.
does it appear just like that though?
@leet7489 yes, around that age usually
Possibly, but it usually starts around the early/mid 20's, while not impossible at 18, its not usual. Could be from drugs, drugs could also cause earlier onsets of schizophrenia.
Sounds like she was invited to one of those Hollywood initiation “parties” in which she probably wanted no part of, and threatened to keep her mouth shut.
Strange how the police just let that Keith guy off so easily. These days he would be the main suspect. I think it was either that Keith guy possibly paid to lure Tammy away from her house. Perhaps that's why they were arguing in the car he might have let it slip then when he dumped her in that parking lot the dealers picked her up. But she could have also set this while thing up to get away from an overbearing mother who was just using her as well. Perhaps she had enough of show business and wanted a fresh start. She seemed a lot smarter than she ever let on and with wanting to become a nurse instead. But not contacting her sister after their mother died puts a hole in that theory unless Tammy herself died before she could make contact. It's one of those mysteries that has a high chance of never being solved fully.
According to Unsolved Mysteries, after she was dropped off by Keith, she left multiple messages for her aunt. If Keith has an alibi for his time after those messages were left, then that may have ruled him out in the eyes of the police.
Drug trade was wild in Florida in the 80s.
Yes, this sounds most probable to me.
Miami was built on coke
Still is , in Florida drugs are everywhere, it’s great, partly 24/7 love cocaine
Ironic that she had a part in Scarface of all things.
@@djpuplex the world is yours
Something happend to her on the movie set. She wasn't the same afterwards. MOst likely witnessed something she wasn't suppose to see or was dragged into illicit behavior or situation (as movie sets seem to be a haven for) then was silenced b/c of it.
She might’ve been hit with that “Spanish fly” by a casting couch style producer who got mad when she turned him down or something along those lines. Sometimes being drugged can cause mental illness to onset. (And I don’t mean the expected trauma response, I mean it can cause full blown breaks with reality in some cases)
@@Thor-Orion Especially if they are haullucinogenics altho not sure what Spanish Fly consists of. Very plausible, greasy producers and conniving set workers are the norm when it comes to preying on the cast. I wouldn't doubt she had a stalker after her.
she went to an 'industry party' and she completely changed afterwards. We know enough about those cluster fkd parties they have for hopefuls that don't get any further than fillers at the party from kappy.
She got groomed, discarded. And the industry that did that to her.. continues to hold parties.
It's very good train of thought.
I think she was trafficked....out of the country, Epstein Island maybe????
Naw, I think she took some kind of drug at that party and that triggered her schizophrenia.
Yes, and Keith must have been involved with the "industry" and helped with making her disappear.
They have these same “parties” in Universities. I was invited to one in 1981 at Macalester. The football team players were from New York and hard core druggies who were going on and on how important it was to make the bathrooms on the dorm floors unisex. A lot of things have played out over the decades to make sense of the nonsense that was present in those weekends. I was given a special drink and weed and it all seemed so innocent, until it wasn’t.
After I made a fuss one of the guys began talking to me like a high powered lawyer how “in situations like this I could just speak to the other guy’s family council for a settlement and I would have to sign a non-disclosure agreement.” Mind you, we were all 18-19ish. But their lives had been vastly different from mine, and they all knew it.
Ive heard this before and it always sounds like she saw a murder
And Trafficked off?????
Or sacrifice?
At first it sounded like cocaine induced paranoia.
Things to consider:
1 ) the clinic cleared her - yes the clinic could have done a shoddy job of evaluating and 72 hours observing her, but the fact is they did clear her and release her.
2 ) she didnt tell the police that she worried her life is targeted, also she didnt tell her mother the details of what she saw, she told no one the details - that means she has been threatend to stay silent or her mom would be harmed too, that is what that indictates to me, most wont speak if they worry that speaking would endanger a loved one.
3 ) has anyone considered witness protection? maybe she reached out and didnt tell anyone, maybe that is what she and her friend Kieth, did that day she disappeared and why he refused to be interviewed for Unsolved Mysteries when they did an episode covering her case? Has the police ever released the details Kieth's statements? I doubt it.
4 ) all accounts about Tammy's behavior is hearsay, opinions from her family and friends. Tammy is not around to defend her behavior nor explain it. Something to think about.
But without her remains, no body, no evidence of her, she is completely gone.
I think she saw something at the party that she wasn’t supposed to see. I think someone killed her because of what she saw.
Sounds like a scenario for a cheap lifetime network movie.
That's what I think. These hollywood parties are satanic.
I believe you're right.
Going to add that the extreme changes of behavior after the party and the fear of being poisoned that arose post party indicate to me that she probably was drugged, and possibly assaulted at said party. Couple that with the "elites" being accused and you have a good sketch of what might have happened, and the reason she was vanished. The "she might have been three months pregnant" revelation in the video lines up with it as well.
They sure took their sweet time about it. Just what exactly did she see that couldn't be denied?
Seeing as though she came back from shooting the movie "Spring Break", did anyone bother to investigate the people involved with making that movie?
Someone Mentioned In Another Criminal Video About Paul Land I Think he passed of Cancer in 2007
Maybe she was SA at the party….
I was once watching Scarface and my brother told me the blonde lady who walked up to the car disappeared in real life. I’ve been hooked to this case ever since. Good episode!
The conclusions make zero sense. A random abduction, possibly from someone who offered her a ride and whom she felt comfortable with getting in the car (perhaps the woman who called the police*) and then murdered is the most plausible explanation since she was seen walking down a highway barefoot by several witnesses, and it was her demand to be let out of the car, not his. A random drop off would preclude her being targeted unless these hypothetical someone's just happened to be driving down the same highway she was walking at the exact same time AND recognized who she was while driving then dragging her into the car in broad daylight w/no one noticing would be an awfully big coincidence. Sounds to me like she was given G H B at the party and subsequently assaulted, something that wasn't commonly known about in 1983. That would explain her sudden behavioral change and paranoia about being poisoned. *There are plenty of examples of husband/wife teams kidnapping women.
She was exhibiting mental health problems
a lot of people do
they usually turn up
she hasnt turned up, no trace
@@86BarbOmega Usually and always are two different things.
I think a life centered around beauty pageants, appearance, modeling can lead to a vacuous sense of identity and purpose. She was clearly unstable (let’s not all turn pro and start labeling her with diagnoses) and d I think she met up with foul play and is probably not alive and was still alive shortly after the last time she was seen. She was vulnerable.
She was assaulted and threatened
I remember seeing this episode on Unsolved Mysteries as a kid. Scared the hell out of me.
Yes, that’s where all of the footage of the dramatic re-enactments came from.
Tammy was killed by Paul Land (Callandrillo), her costar in Spring Break. She was pregnant by him, which was going to ruin her acting and modeling career, where Land was selling large quantities of coke. Land disposed of her in the swamp to let the alligators do what they do.
Land eventually became a made man in the mafia.
Watch your mouth.
How do u know
@@razermotion”watch your mouth”?
is this somebody’s mother typing? 😂
@@CheyenneCribbs I had previously explained this in a reply to the first commenter, but am surprised to see that my reply is no longer visible.
@@CheyenneCribbs I figured that the BQ likely stands for Beauty Queen, but I was never able to come up with how WO related to Paul Land.
I’m unsure if removing the reveals at the end of the article after some number of days is what happens on that site or not. But I had tracked that item when it was first posted, and well remember when the reveal was posted.
The “lead actor who used to be A+ list but is now B list with a disfigured face” was revealed as Mickey Rooney.
I grew up in Lakeland, but my mom was born in Kendall Lakes and lived there at the time. I've looked into this case alot, and while it certainly could have been a money laundering/cartel situation (the local government was indeed super corrupt), I wonder if she might have had a bad psychedelic experience at that party? Mushrooms and acid have always been really popular there, amphetamines too which cause paranoid psychosis.
Amphetamines alone can trigger inhibition. Just that drug alone makes you “talk too much.”
I've always hated the Christopher Wilder theory in this case. it reeks of lazy detective work to me. The reasons given for suspecting him are the reasons I doubt it was him.Tammy was a working model in the area and her mom owned/ran a modeling company. It doesn't seem very likely that she would go off with some random guy claiming to be a photographer, especially given how paranoid she was before she went missing
I strongly believe that she crossed paths with a serial killer
I believe it was Kieth Rodgers. No Girl leaves without her purse. Five miles from her home. Odds are so much more higher it was Kieth.
Kieth refused to be interviewed on Unsovled Mysteries segment about her
That’s the one thing about this case. This woman was supposedly paranoid and terrified for her life, but she jumped out of her friend’s car and ran off? That doesn’t make any sense. Rodgers was the last to see Leppert alive. He needed to be looked at a little more closely.
This just breaks my heart.💔I wonder what happened to Tammy? She was beautiful and had her whole life ahead. So very sad.😢Her mom never found out, what happened to her daughter. 😢
She sure was beautiful....i think she saw something and or knew something that she wasn't supose to and she was murdered to be silenced .
Absolutely stunningly beautiful. I think she might have been drugged at that party (they mention refusing to drink out of open topped cups afterwards) and was abused. Then maybe the guy got scared she would report him and then ended her life.
Sounds more like the onset of Schizophrenia to me...she could have done herself in if she was having hallucinations...pretty sad...
Swim in the ocean? I myself have friends who went for a swim during the night from mental health stuff, they just aren't in their right mind. Foul play seems a reach in this case
Cool, still doesn't explain why her body was never found. Suicide victims bodies are usually found.
How thoroughly was the movie party and those in attendance investígated?
zilch
they all cover for each other in that biz
I'd forgotten about this case. Thanks for the refresher!
Clearly mental health issues with Tammy leading up to her disappearance. She had issues separating reality and fantasy her reaction to a staged shooting on set is not normal, smashing the windows on her own home, the paranoia of being poisoned, people are out to kill her, argument with Keith leaving the vehicle barefoot. I'd lean more to death by misadventure she needed medication possible schizophrenia. A rational individual would be able to articulate exactly what they saw and why people are out to get them, we don't get any of that from Tammy. Unfortunate that her body was never found or properly identified so we are left with speculation. I just don't see evidence that anyone was out to get her, it's possible that she ran into someone meaning her harm after leaving the car, she just as easily could of drowned been swept out to sea.
Keith Rogers may have some serious explaining to do.
It could be that she knew too much about a drug ring but why not also think she may have rejected a guy who tried wooing her and when she said no he ended her life?!
I think she was drugged at the party (the video mentions she was “paranoid” about drinking out of open faced glasses) and assaulted and then the guy got scared that she would talk and maybe heard about her getting committed and talking to the sheriff and decided to end her life.
Why hasn’t Keith been more scrutinized??
If only the police actually gave a shit...it might have been solved.
Being beautiful doesn't make life easier it makes it harder because you are a target can have a true friend. Every man you date can't handle it and there for projects that on to you in the for of abuse. You are certainly not privileged. You are lonely and disappointed in the world and afraid of the threats you face every day 😢
Can see it, especially today😶
Similar for men. I have faced more loneliness and isolation because of my looks. My wife is always jealous of woman staring at me etc.
I don’t believe that one party explains her circumstances and the mystery. Seems like she should not have been alone after the health care concerns
Keith, oh yeah creepy Keith the photographer and 'fixer'.
1:25 The funniest thing I ever heard a 4 year old say, was when my sister tried to get my then 4 yo niece to enter pageants like her older sister, who was about 8. My niece 'That's your dream mom, not mine.'
The story shocked me. Thank you for sharing your story
I feel that she witnessed a ritual at the party in which caused her to become paranoid and that when she left with Keith her paranoia caused an argument between them and Keith accidentally killed her trying to calm her down. Keith panicked and hid her body and came up with a plausible story.
What about theory that she ran away cause she knew too much or she went willingly but she’s alive? I mean one way of not being found is you yourself don’t want to be. Which fits in with easiest answer to why her body never found… she’s not dead?
U think after all these years though if she was alive living under a fake name someplace that she would have been busted by now... She would have popped up somewhere after 40 years. But, stranger things have happened so...
I think it is plausible that she was silenced for knowing something and I won't completely discount that theory, but I also think it's pretty likely that this could've just been a random act of violence as well. It could be that she was struggling with an undiagnosed mental illness, maybe something along the lines of schizophrenia. An unaccompanied, mentally ill woman walking down the road would be a pretty easy target for a sick person.
Regardless of whatever happened to Tammy, I hope she's at peace now.
This leaves out that Tammy was confirmed to have called her aunt from a pay phone near the glass bank after she was dropped off by Keith.
Absurd conclusion, straight out of a bad movie. What exactly did Tammy Leppert "know" about drugs gangs or powerful elites that couldn't be denied? Tammy Leppert's behavior indicates she had mental health issues.
I basically agree with the most likely theory that she seen or heard something that she shouldn't have. But I don't think that a random attack should be ruled out. She was a very attractive young woman walking by herself along the road....no shoes and possibly visible upset. Some A-hole could have offered her a ride and took advantage of the situation. Wouldn't be the first time that type of thing happened.
I think she was being watched and followed
she stands out given her beauty, she would stand out in a crowd, she won 280 crowns of 300 beauty pageants
a theory i havent heard of is she could have had a friend arrange witness protection and never said goodbye to her family because she didnt want them involved
Yes, it sounds like mental health. It's a v sad story.
Gaurenteed a man disappeared her .
I love your show, but it seems you missed the mark on this one. There is no evidence linked to the crime. Also, it sounds like she was developing schizophrenia. She was the right age for it be in onset (18 to 21). Also, criminal enterprises in money laundering and drugs, those guys don't poison like she feared. Those guys shoot and stab. Further, if she did "know" something why didn't she say anything, she had lots of friends and family, telling a secret is the best step to protect ones self. But she kept this dangerous secret, most likely because her secret was schizophrenic paranoia. Her not brushing her hair before leaving for the beach is a detail that supports my theory, personal hygiene is the first thing to go with mentally ill people. It seems she wandered the streets of Florida, paranoid, and became a homeless person and died in abject poverty and metal illness. There is no body most likely because, as a vagabond, they travel and she could have lived for years being a homeless schizophrenic and died at the age of 40 or something completely unrecognizable.
Sounds like paranoid delusional behavior which often starts around her age..I know from experience with a close family member
too many are saying that, which is kinda sus given she vanished with no trace
that is the odd fact that debunks the "she was just paranoid" "she was schizo"
she vanished with zero trace, no trace even after 40 years nothing
most cases people will leave something or turn up later. she is erased
What? Her mother's belief that she was murdered is definitely not the simplest solution. How do you quote a logical deductive principle only to instantly throw it out with one of the more convoluted explanations for what happened? The simplest answer is that she was suffering from a mental illness and possibly ran away or ended her life. That requires zero interaction with any other person, and thus, logically, that is the simplest answer. Murder, especially ones involving the upper echelon, is an extremely complicated answer. If you are going to use Occam's razor, then actually follow the logical process. Don't jump the shark. You can find a LOT of similar cases where people grow overly paranoid and start to suspect their food is poisoned in manic episodes. The clue should be that she thought home cooked meals were also poisoned, which isn't a rational belief even if you did witness a murder. SMH. Please don't pretend to use logical reasoning to make yourself seem smarter or to give your own theories more weight if you aren't actually going to apply the very principle you appeal to. This is the absence of logic, it's a logical fallacy. Which makes me feel like you are using other people's trauma to benefit yourself. Because you don't have a genuine desire to engage with these cases from a genuine logical point of view. It's low-key disgusting. I have watched 4 videos of yours, and 3 of them, you throw out logic in favor of fallacy to support your own opinions over the most likely logical conclusion. Maybe instead of saying "what most likely happened," you should just say. My opinion on what happened is, blah blah blah. Bastardizing logic and trauma for your own gain. Gross.
Not knowing what happened to her must be torture. I feel sorry for her mother, family, and friends. I hope she is found after 41 years. 😢. I wish someone would just come forward after so many years. How people can take these events to their grave is beyond me.
I think what most likely happened to.her was hollyweird
Making dangerous accusations without evidence suggests you aren't a reliable source of information. Hollywood has helped many youths and will continue to do so
@@cccaaaa-el5qf LMAO!!!!! omg wow
@@cccaaaa-el5qf you know nothing of that industry
or maybe you align with what they do to their youths, and I mean the very unpleasant things they do to their youths
look into Shirley Temple, Drew Barrymore's childhood, Cory Haim, Cory Feldman, Judy Garland's younger years, just to name a few off a long list
No one ever suspected her mother? Tammy had broken out the windows of her mother's home and according to her friends, had trouble at home and wanted to leave. Her mother was the source of most of the rumors and speculations in this case. Most of which are unsubstantiated. We are just supposed to take her word for it. She even tried to make Keith look suspicious by claiming Tammy was afraid of him. If she was so scared, why did she call him to come get her that day? Then there are those mysterious anonymous phone calls made to the police claiming Tammy was alive. Those calls came from a woman.
Oh, and aren't most pageant moms controlling and living vicariously through their daughters? If Tammy, who was on the cusp of stardom, left her, no more glory or financial gains for Linda either.
I never met her but I was living close by and spent a lot of time at Summers on the beach where part of the movie Sping Break was filmed. Not sure where on A1A she was dropped off at but I'm assuming anywhere between the Yankee Clipper on the south end of the beach and Sunrise Blvd where the Elbo Room starts the club scene heading north, The Candy Store a gay bar was there, Summers, a biker bar, there would have been people all over because no open container laws yet so you could wander from one club to the next, drink in hand. Weird Al was there and Jim Dandy from Black Oak Arkansas. I personally think someone slipped her some animal Tranq in a drink, but honestly anything could have happened to cause the paranoia.
She didn’t go missing in Fort Lauderdale.
@CarolAnn-gh9fl thanks, I was just reading it was Cocoa Beach she went missing. I hope she's found eventually.
Alright let’s all agree she was (either knowingly or not) drugged in that party and that triggered a psychotic episode 😊
We all know that one person who went completely skizophrenic/paranoid after the first and only time they tried a drug ….
Sounds like paranoid schizophrenia caused by drug use at the party..
It seems likely sadly
I believe she staged her own disappearance to get away from the people who she thought were watching her.
like witness protection?
maybe she organized it with a friend?
Illuminati killed this poor woman. She saw something at a Hollywood party that she wasn't supposed to see.
She ended up in the ocean.... RIP
No one runs away barefoot.
Did they find her car? I wonder if it's in a waterway somewhere.
I simply think she was killed because she knew information about something that she shouldn't; most likely a drug ring where she lived or worked or both.
Wtf would she do about that? You think your average drug dealers give a crap if some 18 year old chick "knows" they are selling drugs?
pacino is as perverted as de niro so...
@@SpicyTexan64 If it affected their bottom line, she's gone. Maybe Biden's long lost brother got her? Or perhaps she saw what they do to people who don't pay up?
I had a friend that acted like this. He had schizophrenia.
Christopher Wilder for sure.
Where was her shoes and purse when she jumped out the car?
Paranoid schizophrenia…most likely perished due to death by misadventure 😢
Women tend to develop schizophrenia starting in their early 20’s, it can happen younger but in most cases the symptoms onset sometime between early twenties and early thirties.
She was 18, and the symptoms typically don’t onset dramatically all of a sudden, there are typically some early indications of it before it develops into the full fledged symptoms.
where is the body? so many keep saying schizo
WHERE IS THE BODY? saying she is schizo doesnt explain the big issue that she VANISHED
saying she is schizo feels more like a sweep under a rug to avoid the 'elephant in the room', she saw something she shouldnt have at a wrap party in the film industry that is notorious for wrong doing, so just chalking it up to "she was schizo" doesnt cut it, that is lazy conclusion, where is her remains?
@@86BarbOmega you’re certainly entitled to your own opinion, however I don’t believe anyone here are sweeping anything under the rug. Schizophrenia is the most likely reason she DISAPPEARED based on the KNOWN EVIDENCE. As to where her body is (if she is deceased), who the heck knows?! It doesn’t negate her strange and paranoid behavior. Could she be out there somewhere living life? Sure, it’s possible, but highly unlikely.
Lots of people who missing and never found after many years are most likely dead too. Where are their bodies? Again, who knows?
4:50 Man is a dead ringer for Peter Sutcliffe
All these doctors in the comments..
Keith probably was a fixer
Sounds like she had a mental break. Was given or took something at the party and it has sparked an episode. I think that is what cause the erratic behavior and paranoia. She didn't tell the truth about where she was going what was her relationship with Keith. Seemed to have alot of male friends. She could have taken off as Keith said, I heard many stories of people taking something or bizarrely just running off into the woods/water and either found drowned or still missing. I wonder what her and Keith were really doing as she hadn't brushed her normally groomed hair or took her bikini so that story does not make sense. Sad for the sister losing her sister and mum at a young age.
Buck Den due probably made her pay a toll
Alligator?
Her mother took her to talk to the sheriff???
"Are you mad? What's with all the question marks?"
@FrankieBlueEyes I think she's shocked her mother would do this, because it would paint an even bigger target on her daughter's back if she indeed, "knew too much."
@valeriemarott1923 I believe the post I was responding to, has been deleted. I wasn't responding to the original post.
How could they never bother to file her dna…? There is almost zero chance she will ever be recovered without it.
File her dna?? In the early 80s?
@@FrankieBlueEyesfull siblings usually share 50% of their dna.
The police have her sister's dna on file!
either the boyfriend or was picked up by a serial killer ( or other deviant). Lotta deviants scouring A1A back in the 80's. Crime of opportunity
She was nuts, but I don't think her friend dropped her off anywhere.
It's ALWAYS the pretty girls.....Right?
So true
Pretty girls have it hard. They don't have an easier life as it is told. They are target's not only for every weirdo out there but can never have a true female friend and every boyfriend is intimated and scared shitless. Men can't handle a beautiful woman so he torments with his jealousy and possessiveness. He strips her of her true self. No her life is not easy 😢
@@handmadewithnailandithat's not fair. You haven't walked in our shoes 😞
@@RegHoldsworth-ri7hhso not true 😢
The world is Evil💯
How did she go to a mental institution and they found nothing. Obvious mental issues mom knew about but preferred to believe otherwise. She probably did away with herself.
It’s a shame, she looks like how I imagine Jean Bennet Ramsey to look like had she been given the chance to grow up. I completely disagree with this theory though. I believe that she took something at that party that triggered the onset of schizophrenia.
I think she was just severely mentally ill and that resulted in her ending her own life.
Seems to me she was having mental health issues. Refusing to eat and drink could be a sign of schizophrenia. All though its not certain there are other mental health issues that can have similar symptoms. For all we know she could have been murdered, acidentially killed herself, heck she might have had a complete mental breakdown and still be alive out there somewhere.
i dont consider the mental health stuff
a lot of that is accounts from her mom and friends, and yet the clinic cleared her, now one could say the clinic didnt do a good job, ok but i think she was "bumped off" and disposed of professionally because WHERE IS THE BODY?
Schitzo
Onset of Schizophrenia. Probably disappeared in the ocean.
Maybe she has a tiny home somewhere
Most likely bipolar.. a manic episode.. and no doubt she’s dead, by her own means, or by her beach companion.
A newxvideo, on a well-known cold case, that brought nothing new to the table. If you know this case, don't bother with this video. It's a waste of time
She was coked and cracked out.