Missing
Tabbetha Kay Worford
Worford, approximately 1990
Date and time person was reported missing : 05/04/1990
Missing location (approx) :
Escambia County, Florida
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 07/23/1970 (51)
Age at the time of disappearance: 19 years old
Height / Weight : 4'11, 85 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A white eyelet top and black jeans. Carrying a white leather purse with blue patchwork.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian female. Blonde hair, blue eyes. Worford is club-footed on her right foot, and limps as a result. Her nickname is Tabby. She wears eyeglasses, but these were left behind.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Worford was last seen after she was dropped off at her residence at Fairfield VillAge at the time of disappearance: Apartments in the 600 block of north Fairfield Road in Escambia County, Florida during the evening hours of May 4, 1990. She has never been heard from again. She was reported missing two days after she was last seen.
She disappeared shortly after starting a new secretarial job and moving into a new apartment. Her glasses, clothes and money were left behind, but her purse, containing her wallet, identification and a paycheck for $160, went missing with her; the check has never been cashed. There were no indications of a struggle at her apartment, and nobody else in the building heard screams. Sheets and pillowcases were discovered Missing location (approx) : her bed.
Worford had a son with Tim Reno fifteen months prior to her disappearance. The same night Worford disappeared, someone left the baby in his car seat at the Bellview Avenue home of Reno's former wife. A witness recalled hearing the doorbell ring at 2:30 a.m., though no one answered the door at the time. The baby was found unharmed on the doorstep about five hours later.
Reno is considered a possible suspect in Worford's disappearance, but he hasn't been charged. She has been declared legally deceased, but her remains have never been located and her case remains unsolved.
Other information and links : ncy
Escambia County Sheriff's Office
850-436-9599
September 2021 updates and sources
Escambia County Sheriff's Office
Florida Department of Law Enforcement
The Doe Network
Find a Grave
The Pensacola News Journal
October 12, 2004. July 16, 2019; date of disappearance corrected, Description, clothing, jewerly and more : added, Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: and Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.
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