missing person’s family Tennessee The mother of two children who went missing during a cross-border road trip with her boyfriend said she was worried she was in imminent danger.
Nicky Alcaraz, 33, aka Nicky Cunningham, was traveling with her boyfriend, Tyler Stratton, and their dog in a black Jeep Wrangler to visit family in Cheatham County. orange county, Californiasay the authorities.
She was last seen on the morning of May 6 at the Super 8 Motel in the small town of Moriarty, New Mexico, about 60 miles east of Albuquerque.
In the throbbing echo Gabby Pettit case, On May 4, in Torrance County, New Mexico, the couple were pulled over after a witness reported seeing Mr. Stratton punch his girlfriend in the face.
Photo released by the Cheatham County Sheriff’s Department I showed it to Mr. Alcaraz After the incident, his left eye turned black.
According to the incident report, Mr. Stratton claimed he was also beaten, and the Torrance County Sheriff’s deputy observed blood coming out of Mr. Stratton’s mouth.
Neither Mr. Stratton nor Mr. Alcaraz wanted to press charges, and she was driven to Moriarty’s.
Her sister Toni Alcaraz said: WKRNMore He said he had not heard from Alcaraz since receiving a text message on May 9 that he was planning to leave for California.
Toni Alcaraz said WKRNMore After the alleged assault, she told her sister, she said she was crying and upset.
“You could tell that her eyes were already black and she had been beaten pretty badly,” Toni Alcaraz told the news site.
A friend came from California to look after Alcaraz and stayed with her overnight in a Super 8.
She left early on the morning of May 6, telling her friend that she was looking for a boyfriend.
Toni Alcaraz said WKRNMore The sisters usually communicated daily by email and phone, and it was very unusual not to hear from her for an extended period of time.
“I’m afraid something happened to them, whether they got into another fight or banged her jeep somewhere,” she said.
Alcaraz’s Jeep was picked up by a license plate reader near Flagstaff, Arizona, earlier this month, but police said his cell phone was out of range and could not be traced.
Mr. Stratton has an outstanding arrest warrant in Cheatham County on unrelated theft charges.
Alcaraz’s two children were at their home in Cheatham County, family members said.
In September 2021, the body of Gabby Petit, who went missing while on a road trip with her boyfriend Brian Landry, was found in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
The couple were pulled over in Utah by officers from the Moab Police Department on Aug. 12 after receiving reports that Landry had run over Petito.
They were allowed to proceed separately, as Landry claimed to have been beaten by Petite.
An independent investigation into the domestic assault case found that the police had made several mistakes and should have been classified as a domestic assault.
Landry then kills himself by shooting himself in the head, leaving a suicide note confessing to murdering Petito.
Petit’s family suing Moab police For not following the law and protecting her during the traffic stop.
