Tamala "Nikki" Wells
The Vanished Podcast
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🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In early August 2012, 33-year-old Tamala “Nikki” Wells vanished from her Detroit, Michigan, home under mysterious circumstances, leaving her family in a state of confusion and despair. The last person to see Tamala, her boyfriend, claims she drove off from their home on the evening of August 6th in a white 2001 Pontiac Grand Prix, but after that, she disappeared without a trace.
The following morning, Tamala’s mother, Donna, received a chilling call from her young granddaughter. She revealed that Tamala had not come home, sparking immediate concern. Donna, who lived in Florida, rushed to Detroit to help search for her daughter. What followed was a series of unsettling discoveries. Tamala’s car, reportedly driven by her on the night she disappeared, was found abandoned in a different part of town, but Tamala herself was nowhere to be found.
As days turned into weeks, the case began to go cold. However, Tamala’s family believes that the investigation was mishandled from the start and that there is still hope of finding her. They are convinced that with a fresh look and renewed effort, this case could be solved.
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| 0:00.0 | Her son was graduating from high school at the time. She would have never missed this graduation. It's just a sad situation that this had to come upon my family. |
| 0:20.5 | It was strange occurrences that was leading up to it. |
| 0:24.2 | We just didn't see the signs because we don't live there. |
| 0:28.5 | I'm looking for Tamla. |
| 0:29.7 | That's what I'm looking for. |
| 0:30.9 | I don't just sit here and mope and cry about Tamla. |
| 0:34.8 | I'll reach out to different people, different communities, but we need to get |
| 0:39.6 | answered. My baby, these people don't live the pain that I live every day. They don't know what |
| 0:46.0 | it feels like to go to bed day in and day out and not knowing what your child is. And in and days, |
| 0:53.5 | I want to change my number. |
| 0:54.8 | But my baby, she knows this number. |
| 0:57.7 | And I keep hope alive because I don't know where she is. |
| 1:01.9 | She just knows that she would have contacted me |
| 1:04.7 | if she had to put it on a rubber band and tied to a bird seat. |
| 1:10.8 | 33-year-old Tamila Nikki Wells |
| 1:12.8 | disappeared from her Detroit, Michigan home |
| 1:15.0 | in early August 2012, |
| 1:17.5 | leaving her loved ones desperate for answers. |
| 1:20.3 | According to her boyfriend, |
| 1:21.8 | the last time he saw Tamila |
| 1:23.3 | was on the evening of August 6th, |
| 1:25.5 | when he said she drove away from their home and then disappeared |
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