Missing
Teresa Gail Cupps
Cupps, approximately 1977; Age at the time of disappearance: -progression to an unknown Age at the time of disappearance:
Date and time person was reported missing : 01/01/1977
Missing location (approx) :
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 04/08/1957 (64)
Age at the time of disappearance: 19 - 20 years old
Height / Weight : 5'3, 120 pounds
Medical conditions : Cupps has a history of drug abuse.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Cupps has a tattoo on her right ankle and may have an additional tattoo on her lower right leg. She has track marks on her arms from heroin use. Cupps may have a scar on her abdominal area. She may use the aliases Kimbi R. Boyd, Virginia Collins, Kimvi Boyd, and/or Kimbi Cupps, and the alias DOB : April 8, 1956.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : During the mid-1970s, Cupps lived in Girlstown, a juvenile shelter in Tecumseh, Oklahoma. She was convicted of grand larceny in 1975 under the name Kimbi Boyd and given to the custody of the Department of Corrections. She was reportedly using heroin and working as a prostitute at the time
She stopped reporting to her parole officer in 1977 and a warrant was issued for her arrest. Thirteen years later, after no sign of Cupps, the state dropped the charges against her.
After Cupps's mother's death in 2004, her younger sister filed a missing persons report. Investigators are trying to find Cupps, but all public record for her ends in 1977. Her case remains unsolved.
Other information and links : ncy
Tecumseh Police Department
405-598-3755
September 2021 updates and sources
The Doe Network
The Child Seek Network
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