A Hernando, Mississippi, mother is feverishly searching for her daughter, 21-year-old Tamia Taylor, who went missing after celebrating her milestone birthday on Sept. 9 in Memphis with friends by taking a riverboat cruise on the Mississippi River.
Taylor’s friends reportedly told her mother, Debra Taylor, that as they were disembarking, the young woman left the group to go to the bathroom, leaving her phone behind before disappearing. However, family members are not sure if those who accompanied her to the boat party are disclosing all that they know.
“I think that she went out with a group of people that maybe she thought were her friends because Tamia always saw the good in people, no matter what, to enjoy herself. And things took a turn for the worse,” Debra Taylor said in an interview with WREG.
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The mother seemed to express her frustration with the friends, saying to WHBQ, “They seemed to make it off the boat, and she didn’t. And no one has any answers. They don’t know what happened.”
One friend, who also worked with Taylor, attempted to clear her name of some of the rumors being spread about her connection to the disappearance.
“It’s a lot of rumors going around, is a lot of people saying that me and two of my friends have drugged her, we killed her, it’s too many rumors going around,” Kuandera Jenkins said to WMC.
Jenkins said Taylor met up with someone while they were in line.
“Them two were talking and whatever, and he was telling her, ‘Oh, you a Virgo, she’s a Virgo,’ so they started laughing and talking, so he gave her some money to buy her a drink so she can celebrate her birthday,” Jenkins explained.
Adding, “She had her little bottle with her, and she was already taking shots, and we were smoking.”
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