April 29, 2003. Nashville, Tennessee. 13-year old Tabitha Tuders leaves her house for school and is last seen walking through her neighbourhood towards her bus stop. Tabitha never boards the bus or arrives at school and when she fails to return home that evening, she is reported missing. Less than four months later, another young girl goes missing when 11-year old Heaven LaShae Ross also disappears after leaving her home to catch the school bus in Northport, Alabama. Shae’s remains are discovered underneath an abandoned house three years later, but her death remains unsolved and Tabitha Tuders is never found. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we examine two unsolved cold cases involving girls who vanished under very similar circumstances and the possibility that they might be connected.

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Additional Reading:

http://charleyproject.org/case/tabitha-danielle-tuders

http://tabithatuders.net/index.html

https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/article/13016007/tabitha-tuders

https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/article/13011446/neverending-grief

https://www.al.com/tuscaloosa/2013/08/case_of_missing_ala_girl_heave.html

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/news/20031001/volunteers-part-ways-with-missing-girls-mom

https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/news/20061221/shaes-family-copes-after-body-found

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The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.

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