A Tennessee woman disappeared after leaving on a cross-country road trip with her boyfriend for several weeks, a case that is compared to that of Gabby Petito, who was found dead in 2021.
Nikki Alcaraz, 33, who is also known as Nikki Cunningham, began her journey from Nashville with her boyfriend identified as Tyler Stratton in early May to visit family in California, her sister, Toni Alcaraz, reported. to KNRN on Sunday.
The woman last left traces with her sister on May 8 via text message, noting that she was in Arizona and planned to end the trip, according to reports.
“So I didn’t hear anything else after that Monday morning,” Toni told the aforementioned medium. “I talk to her almost every day, so I’m afraid something has happened to them.”
Reports stated that the couple had a run-in with police on May 4 in Torrance County, New Mexico.
For his part, a witness saw Stratton punch the woman in the face, according to a report from the Torrance County Sheriff’s Office.
However, Alcaraz’s boyfriend told officers that the woman had attacked him first, but neither wanted to press charges, so authorities took them to different locations, the reports said.
Toni added that Alcaraz called her sister “crying and upset,” with one of her eyes turning black after being hit.
A family friend came all the way to New Mexico to take the woman to California, but in the morning when he was supposed to leave, Alcaraz told him that he had to go back and find Tyler, because he had a “bad feeling” about it. It is believed that this friend was the last person to see Alcaraz on May 6, Toni said.
Two days later, Toni contacted Alcaraz and told him that he was in Arizona, and intended to complete the trip.
“I’m afraid something has happened to them, whether they got into another fight or they crashed their Jeep somewhere,” said Toni, who said her sister’s and boyfriend’s phones have remained switched off.
With information from the New York Post
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