NM NIKKI ALCARAZ: Missing from road trip with boyfriend from Tennessee ; last seen in New Mexico - 6 May 2023 - Age 33 *Found Safe*

Tennessee woman goes missing during cross-country trip with boyfriend

The fear over Nikki’s disappearance has been heightened by some eerie similarities to the high-profile Gabby Petito case.

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Tennessee woman goes missing during cross-country trip with boyfriend​

A Tennessee family is desperately trying to find their loved one after they say she disappeared while traveling across the country with her boyfriend, who is currently wanted on an unrelated arrest warrant.

Toni Alcaraz last spoke with her 33-year-old sister, Nikki Alcaraz, also known as Nikki Cunningham, three weeks ago.

Nikki had set out in her black Jeep with her boyfriend, Tyler Stratton, and a dog to visit family in Orange County, California.

“I talk to her almost every day, so I am scared something happened to them,” said Toni. “It’s a trip she’s done hundreds of times. Our uncle is still in Southern California, and she goes to see him often.”

During their cross-country trip, the couple had a run-in with law enforcement in Torrance County, New Mexico. According to a Torrance County Sheriff’s Office report from May 4, a witness saw Stratton punch Nikki in the face. The report went on to say that Stratton claimed he was also hit, with blood coming from his mouth and nose.

Since neither one wanted to press charges, authorities said Stratton and Nikki were given rides. After Nikki was dropped off in Moriarty, Toni said Nikki called her.

“She was crying and upset. Her eye was already turning black and you could tell she was beat up pretty bad,” Toni recalled.

Shortly after the fight, Toni said a family friend drove to New Mexico, where he met up with Nikki in hopes of bringing her to California.

“That morning when they were supposed to leave, she told him that she had to go back and find Tyler because she had a bad feeling, and so he left without her,” Toni explained.

Toni believes that friend was the last person to see her sister on May 6.

However, Nikki did communicate with Toni via text two days later, on May 8, saying she was in Arizona with plans to complete the trip to California.

“Then I didn’t hear anything else after that Monday morning,” Toni said.

Nikki’s phone now appears to be out of service, leaving her family fearing the worst.

“I don’t think she is dead out there somewhere, but it’s all a possibility at this point, and I am really scared of that, but I’m praying that’s not the case,” Toni said, adding that Nikki has two children in Cheatham County.


MEDIA - NIKKI ALCARAZ: Missing from road trip with boyfriend from Tennessee ; last seen in New Mexico - 6 May 2023 - Age 33

 

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Apparently reports that "neither wanted to press charges" were just not true...

Bodycam shows Nikki Alcaraz begging police to arrest boyfriend before she vanished

Family of Tennessee woman say their three-week ordeal could have been avoided if she and boyfriend Tyler Stratton were taken into custody

www.independent.co.uk

Newly-released bodycam footage shows bloodied Tennessee mother Nikki Alcaraz begging New Mexico police to arrest her boyfriend before she was reported missing.

Bodycam footage released to The Independent by the Torrance County Sheriff’s Office shows Ms Alcaraz, with a swollen eye and bruising to her arm, telling officers that the pair had been drinking shots of Fireball whiskey before a violent fight broke out in her black Jeep Wrangler.

“He laid his hands on me and I want him in jail for it,” she can be heard saying.

The trucker who contacted police tells officers that he saw Mr Stratton “slap her and punch her in the face” as she was lying on the ground.

Ms Alcaraz could also be heard screaming in a 911 call, according to an incident report provided to The Independent by the sheriff’s office.

Officers can later be seen speaking to Mr Stratton, who is bleeding from the nose and mouth with his arms zip tied behind his back.

Mr Stratton says that his girlfriend had been the aggressor, striking him for no reason while he was driving.

“I’m not trying to blame anything on her... but she ended up having too much to drink,” he said, claiming that he had been “begging her to stop” hitting him.

“I’ve never seen Nikki like this before.”

The couple both appeared to be intoxicated, the incident report stated.

The officers then let the couple go, after instructing Mr Stratton not to contact Ms Alcaraz for 24 hours or he would face arrest.

He should have been arrested or if they believed his story of how it occurred and who was the aggressor, BOTH should have been arrested, BOTH had injuries. Just HOW does this Sheriff's Dept. EXPLAIN this?? IT isn't like Petito where Gabby was not wanting Brian arrested, this woman was yelling for it. She was bloodied, unlike Gabby. Etc., etc.