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In January of 2016, a 19 year old woman vanished from the parking lot of her North Carolina apartment complex. When her grandfather received word that she was believed to have been abducted.

He took the investigation into his own hands. This is the story of Tierra Williams.

Tierra Casseque Williams was born on June 18th, 1996 in Greensboro, North Carolina, which is about an hour's drive east of the capital city of Raleigh.

Three years after she was born, Tierra was joined by a younger brother named Canon. And then after about eight years together, Tierra's parents, Alan and Danielle did split up and her mom took care of the kids full time.

Her mom, Danielle remembers Tierra being incredibly protective of her baby brother, calling Tierra her brother's bodyguard. And she also said that she adored being a big sister. So it seemed like being maternal came naturally to Tierra.

Her friends described her as warm and nurturing, but that she also had a quick wit and a sharp and very sassy sense of humor.

Tierra's family was very important to her. And in addition to her brother, she was extremely close with her mom and her grandparents as well. And actually her grandma Vanessa lived right across the street from where Tierra lived with her mom and brother.

So they could see each other whenever they wanted. Tierra, who was sometimes known by Tika, was such a social butterfly. And so much so that when she joined Facebook, her mom Danielle was concerned about how many friends she had.

So she told Tierra that if she wanted to have a Facebook, they're needed to be some ground rules. One, that she would have to be friends with Danielle. And two, that Danielle had to have access to her profile, which is a rule which later led them one step closer to finding out what happened to Tierra on the night that she would disappear.

Tierra had hundreds of online friends and her mom Danielle worried that it would distract her from her studies or worse, get her into trouble if she befriended the wrong person.

Both on and offline, she was known as bubbly and full of light. Continuing to explore her love of caring for others and especially children, Tierra enrolled in the early childhood development class in her junior year at Dudley High School right there in Greensboro, North Carolina.

She really fell in love with this course and decided that that was what she wanted to dedicate her life to.

Her mom remembered, quote, Tierra loved children and children loved her. They were drawn to her. And her grandma added, quote, she wanted to work with mainly small children and children with disabilities.

She felt like they needed as much love as they could and that she could be the one to give it to them.

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