Seventeen-year-old Tiara Christina Puccio was reported missing from Knoxville, Tennessee, after she was last seen on January 14, 2026. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children published an official missing-child poster identifying Tiara as female, listing Knoxville as the location from which she disappeared, and assigning her case NCMEC number 2074478 and NCIC number M528802466.
The limited public record does not identify the exact address where Tiara was last seen, describe her clothing that day, explain how she may have traveled, or provide a detailed account of the events immediately preceding her disappearance. Those missing pieces leave a troubling gap in the story of a teenager whose whereabouts became the subject of a public search.
East Tennessee Valley Crime Stoppers issued a public appeal seeking help locating Tiara and another missing teenager, Gabriella Miller. The appeal asked whether anyone had seen either girl and urged members of the community to share information that could assist investigators. Separate Knoxville-area reporting stated that Tiara and Gabriella had left a residence together near John Tarleton Park and were not seen afterward. The available reports do not clarify whether January 14 was the day they left that residence, whether they had arranged transportation, or whether investigators believed the two remained together after their departure. No publicly confirmed destination, subsequent sighting, telephone contact, or social-media communication was disclosed in the sources reviewed.
The disappearance occurred against the backdrop of an earlier Tennessee missing-child notice bearing a closely related name. In September 2025, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and Chattanooga Police Department circulated an official poster for Tiara Pruitt-Puccio, then described as a sixteen-year-old biracial female missing from Chattanooga since September 8, 2025. That notice described her as five feet two inches tall and approximately 181 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, and stated that she might still be in the Chattanooga area. It directed information to Chattanooga Police Department investigator Kendra Adams or the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. The strong similarities in name, age progression, and location within Tennessee suggest that the earlier Chattanooga notice may concern the same teenager, but the official materials available online do not expressly establish that connection or explain how the earlier report relates to the later Knoxville case.
The public timeline is therefore incomplete. An official notice placed a similarly named sixteen-year-old in a missing-child investigation in Chattanooga during September 2025, while a later national record identified seventeen-year-old Tiara Christina Puccio as missing from Knoxville beginning January 14, 2026. The Knoxville appeal connected her disappearance with Gabriella Miller and a residence near John Tarleton Park, but it did not disclose why the teenagers left, where they intended to go, whether anyone accompanied them, or what investigative steps followed. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation explains that children appearing in its missing-children listings may be missing under many different circumstances, including at-risk situations, parental abductions, or cases involving young people who left home, but no specific classification for Tiara’s Knoxville disappearance was stated in the available official sources.
Tiara’s case remains defined publicly by a small number of confirmed facts and many unanswered questions. She was seventeen years old, she was last known to be in Knoxville on January 14, 2026, and authorities and community advocates sought information from anyone who had seen her or Gabriella. Nothing in the sources reviewed provides a verified explanation for their departure or establishes where Tiara went afterward, making it important not to substitute rumor or speculation for confirmed information. Every credible observation—including knowledge of where the teenagers planned to stay, who may have offered them transportation, or whether they were seen near John Tarleton Park or elsewhere in Knoxville—could help clarify the missing timeline. Overall, the case concerns a seventeen-year-old girl whose disappearance prompted both a national missing-child notice and a local Crime Stoppers appeal, whose possible connection to an earlier Chattanooga missing-child report remains insufficiently explained, and whose story continues to center on the urgent need for reliable information about what happened after she was last seen.Last Seen: Jan 14, 2026
