After being apprehended for shoplifting charges, Tiffany was placed on parole.

The two talk college football. Eventually in their conversation, Lisa Daniels says she had to break off communication with Tiffany because of her addictions. Lisa says she was used to Tiffany's long absences.

She tells her she has no food or clean clothes. The grandmother takes her to her laundromat and gets her food.

On the night of September 12, Tiffany and Red go to the house of a friend, Stephen Weinstein, and take drugs.

Tiffany goes to Wal-Mart with her boyfriend.

Walmart Supercenter

Tiffany is caught shoplifting approximately $20 worth of merchandise. A plain-clothes loss prevention officer intervenes. According to security footage, the prevention officer grabs her by her purse. She is able to wiggle out of her purse, kick off her flip-flops and proceedes to run toward the parking lot. Neither Red or the Walmart employees ran after her.

Walmart Supercenter

After Tiffany ran into the parking lot, Red later recounts that attempted to follow Tiffany — but not right away. He said he didn't go to his ruck because he knew it contained trucks and he was afraid he'd be arrested going near it. Instead, Red recounts that he looked around nearby stoors, and eventually ended up at the IHOP looking for her.

IHOP

Sheila Fuller, Whitton's former roommate, recalls encountering Red sitting on a bench outside the IHOP restaurant sometime after 2:00am. After Red shared that he was looking for Tiffany, Shiela suggests that he should call her phone to find her. Red replied that he was charging his phone, so he didn't call yet. She questioned how he was looking for her by just sitting in front of IHOP; he answered that some friends were coming to pick him up shortly. 

IHOP

An hour and a half later, Stephen, accompanied by two women, pulled up and picked up Red — who said again that he didn't want to go back to his car because of the drugs. Stephen said he felt like Red sounded genuine when Red said he had no idea where Tiffany could've gone.

IHOP

Red says when he got back to Stephen's neighborhood, everyone stayed in the car and continued to search for Tiffany. Red said he believed that Tiffany would eventually return to Stephen's house.

Red drives back to Powder Springs where he, his daughter, and Tiffany lived. He says he spent the next several days looking for Tiffany — including calling "old boyfriends, hospitals and jails in the area." Phone records indicate this is true.

Normally Tiffany was very acive on social media — particularly Facebook. However, Tiffany abruptly stopped posting on September 1st. As the fall months continued, friends and acquaintances said they also began to notice Tiffany's absence. "Before she could become a body, Tiffany became a ghost," Esquire's Tom Junod wrote about her radio silence. It's important to note that Red never told Tiffany's family — or the police — that she disappeared.

Anita tells her daughter, Lisa, to look for clues to Tiffany's disappearance on her Facebook page. Normally Tiffany was very active on social media, but all of her activity stopped on September 1. Unread Facebook messages from other friends and acquaintances since then indicated that they, too, had not heard from Tiffany and expressed concern.

The whole family makes an effort to locate Whitton on their own in the months after September 13, believing she was alive and might eventually return because this was not the first time she vanished from her family.

A journalist writing for "Esquire" reported in 2016 that in January of 2014, Tiffany's half-brother Blake said he received a phone call from her — almost four months after she was last seen.

Lisa files a missing persons report with the Marietta Police Department in January 2014.

In March, as a result of the investigation conducted by Detective Jonnie Moeller, a multi-jurisdictional drug-enforcement task force raids the last known residence for Tiffany. They officers found "marijuana, meth, and guns, amid an interior filled with dog feces and used needles." Eight people were living there, and all were arrested — including Red.

This search includes an excavation in the backyard of the home, where police spend around 5 hours digging. Authorities leave the scene with boxes of envelopes, but note that they did not find any noteworthy evidence that would lead to Tiffany's whereabouts.

The search included extensive excavation and searches with cadre dogs — but they didn't find anything to provide them with any leads.

One year after Tiffany's disappearance, her mother, Lisa, announces a $2,500 reward for information leading to Tiffany's whereabouts during a press conference.

Walmart Supercenter

drug trafficking charges, sentence may last until 2024

The Cobb County Cold Case Unit picks up Tiffany's case.

Investigators learned a tip from a meth trafficker who said that he heard some of his friends say that after Tiffany disappeared, Red and some friends drove up to Lake Allatoona and threw a concrete-filled barrel off the Bethany Bridge. The informant described damage to the bridge from the suspects rolling the barrel into the water — damage that matched what investigators found when they visited.

Bethany Bridge

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources brought in sonar and found a large object under 40 feet (12 m) of water below the bridge damage. When state patrol divers went down to look, however, the object turned out to be a large chunk of concrete from the bridge's construction. This is to date the last official attempt to find Tiffany.

Bethany Bridge