She had curly blond hair and hazel eyes. Leppert was last seen on July 6, 1983, in Cocoa Beach, Florida. The Charley Project is NOT a registered non-profit organization and any donations will NOT be tax-deductible. It is claimed she had plans to go to Hollywood in 1983. Authorities have not linked Wilder to Leppert's disappearance. Leppert's mother also filed a one million dollar claim against serial killer Christopher Wilder's estate. Last updated August 15, 2019; details of disappearance updated. Leppert's agent also stated that she did not believe Wilder killed Tammy. She had died about six weeks before her discovery. It is believed she died about six months before she was found. Donations are accepted but not expected; the site remains free-access to all. Her mother, Linda Curtis, was a … I Care---missing persons cold cases - Message Board - Yuku, The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. She had died within two months to a few days of discovery and there was evidence that she may have been kept in a freezer or a similar device to preserve the remains. She said Tammy exhibited signs of paranoia, as she was cautious when consuming food and would not drink from open containers. 1:31 AM PDT A partial skeleton of a white female discovered by a hunter. A decomposed white female found buried in a shallow grave. She occasionally uses Tammi and/or Tami-Lyn as stage names. Leppert may spell her first name "Tammi." As a child, she competed in nearly 300 beauty pageants and won the vast majority of them, taking home about 280 crowns. Leppert's family sued Wilder before he was killed, but eventually halted the process, as some had doubts as to whether he was involved in Tammy's disappearance. [3], Leppert had a lead role playing herself in a movie called Cover Girl Behind the Scenes. She came home from the party "a different person" according to her close friend Wing Flannagan's testimony. The television program Unsolved Mysteries profiled Leppert's disappearance in September 1992, Season 5 Episode 1. on [2] She began participating in beauty contests at 4 years old. She had also allegedly filed a report to police. A skeleton of a white female with Hispanic characteristics found underneath brush on a private property. Tammy Lynn Leppert (born February 5, 1965; disappeared July 6, 1983) is an American former child and teen model, actress and beauty queen who went missing under mysterious circumstances at the age of 18. [4], After the shooting of the film Spring Break was finished, Leppert went unaccompanied to a weekend party. However, her mother has claimed that Leppert was "afraid" of him. Some presume that Leppert may have been a murder victim of serial killer Christopher Wilder, who killed 8 or 9 young women before dying in a shootout with police in 1984. In the first call, the woman said that Tammy Leppert was well and would make contact when the time was right. Leppert's mother filed a claim for more than $1 million against Wilder's estate. During the second call, she said that Tammy was doing what she always wanted: going to school to become a nurse. Another person of interest in the case was John Crutchley, a convicted kidnapper and rapist suspected of killing as many as 30 women. Before that, among other minor roles, she played a participant in a boxing match in the teen movie Spring Break. A decomposed body of a white female found in a desert area. Police do not consider Wilder to be linked to Leppert's disappear… The victim wore a rubber bracelet on her ankle. Tammy Lynn Leppert was born on February 5, 1965.