On August 26, 2009, TikToker Tiffany (@upholsterygirl239) was dropped off at school in the morning, and as soon as she arrived, she met up with her best friend.
They decided to skip school together. Her best friend called her aunt Tina to come pick them up. However, this woman was not actually her best friend’s aunt, but of course, Tiffany did not know that at the time.
So, the two girls hid in a stairwell, waited for the hallways to clear, and then ducked out to conceal themselves behind a dumpster. Tina picked them up around 9 a.m.
The first thing she asked Tiffany when she got in the car was if she had a driver’s license.
She told Tina that she did not have any form of identification with her, but Tina still took them to a tattoo shop anyway. The tattoo shop refused to do any work on her without a license.
Her dad ended up getting a phone call from the school that she was absent. He immediately called her and asked where she was. She told him that she had skipped school with her friend and was not going back.
Tina took the girls to her house. As soon as Tiffany walked into the house, she noticed that the front and back doors both had several deadbolts on them. Also, a room toward the back of the house was filled with nothing but chickens.
There were a lot of people at the house, but mostly male adults. Everyone was drinking, and music was playing loudly. Tina brought Tiffany a drink, which she later realized was spiked. She hadn’t even finished the drink, yet she was going in and out of consciousness.
When she woke up, her friend was lying next to her. She tried to shake her awake, saying that they needed to get out of there. The next time she woke up, she was bent over a couch that was wrapped in plastic, and she was aware of flashing lights behind her as if someone was taking pictures with a camera.
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Overall, she could only remember about 30 minutes of her time at Tina’s house, even though she had been there for several hours.
The last time she woke up in the house, she found herself undressed in a bathroom with a familiar-looking guy, and she was trying to clean blood off the bathroom floor for some reason.
She wandered throughout the entire house searching for Tina and her friend, but was told that she was not allowed to leave the house.
So then, she started looking for her backpack, which had her cell phone in it.
Finally, she found her backpack. Her phone was almost dead, and she had multiple missed calls from her parents and boyfriend. Her boyfriend’s dad was a sheriff, so he was the first person she called. However, her phone died in the middle of the call.
She went back into the bathroom to hide and found a big green t-shirt on the floor to wear. There was a small window in the bathroom. She was able to open it and climb out. She started running down random streets until she reached the main street.
Tiffany caught sight of a cop car and ran toward it. A sheriff stepped out of the vehicle and asked if she was Tiffany because an alert had been put out for her.
She collapsed into the sheriff’s arms and started sobbing. The sheriff took her back to the police station, where she described her entire experience at the house.
When Tiffany turned her phone back on, she saw multiple text messages from Tina telling her to get back to the house. The police came up with a plan for Tiffany to pretend meet up with Tina at 7 a.m. at a gas station near her school.
The police had the gas station completely surrounded and were able to arrest Tina.
By Emily Chan
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