Tiffany Cherelle Vaughn was 35 years old when she was reported in public missing-person records as last having contact in New Haven, Connecticut, on September 20, 2010. She was identified as a Black / African American woman, approximately 5 feet 9 inches to 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighing about 150 to 175 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. The NamUs record listed her case as MP77006 and associated the investigation with the New Haven Police Department.
Public case summaries preserved only a small amount of information about the circumstances, noting that Tiffany “may have left state,” without explaining what led investigators or record keepers to that possibility.
The known public details of Tiffany’s disappearance were sparse, and that scarcity shaped the way her case appeared to the public. There were no widely available descriptions of the clothing she may have been wearing, no listed vehicle information, no public explanation of her final confirmed movements, and no detailed timeline showing where she had been or whom she may have been with before she was last known to be in New Haven. What remained in the available record was a quiet but serious outline: a 35-year-old woman had disappeared from New Haven, her case was entered into NamUs years later, and the New Haven Police Department was identified as the investigating agency. The lack of detail did not make her case less important; it meant that the people searching for clarity had fewer public pieces from which to understand what happened.
Tiffany’s case was part of the broader system of missing-person records maintained through NamUs, the national clearinghouse used to help law enforcement, medical examiners, coroners, investigators, and families resolve missing, unidentified, and unclaimed person cases. NamUs describes itself as a centralized national resource, and the National Institute of Justice notes that cases in the system depend in part on reporting and entry by agencies and users, meaning the public record can vary greatly in detail from case to case. In Tiffany’s case, the available online information was limited but consistent: her name, identifying details, New Haven as the place of last contact, the September 20, 2010 date of last contact, and the note that she may have left Connecticut.
The attached case data indicates that Tiffany’s case resolution status is Alive, meaning she has been found alive and this is no longer an active missing-person case. The exact date of resolution is not clear from the available information, so it should be understood only that the former missing-person case has since been resolved with Tiffany located alive. In overview, Tiffany Cherelle Vaughn’s public case record began with a missing-person entry tied to New Haven, Connecticut, after her last known contact on September 20, 2010; it contained limited public circumstances, identified her as a 35-year-old Black woman with brown hair and brown eyes, noted the possibility that she may have left the state, and was ultimately resolved with the compassionate and important conclusion that she was found alive.Last Seen: Sep 20, 2010
