A woman is discovered lying dead next to a roadway Tammy Brown, a 36-year-old female of Caucasian/White ethnicity, was last seen on September 22, 2003, walking down East Fourth Street in Reno, Nevada, carrying a suitcase from the address where she had been living with her boyfriend. The next day, September 23, 2003, she was discovered lying next to the roadway in Thomas Creek Canyon, a remote area south of Reno. The location and circumstances of the discovery offered few immediate clues about how she had come to be there.
Detectives established a brief but haunting timeline: a final sighting on Fourth Street on the evening of September 22, then the recovery of her body the following day in the canyon. Public notices have consistently reiterated these same core facts and have asked for information that might fill in the gap between those two points in time. Despite periodic attention to the case over the years, there has been no public indication of a break that would explain how she traveled from the city to Thomas Creek Canyon or who—if anyone—she met after she was last seen.
Authorities have not announced any arrests, and no suspects have been publicly identified. The case remains an unsolved homicide under the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office, which continues to list the investigation and its essential details, including the date, location, and last known movements that precede her death.
