Teresa Gail Cupps was last heard from in the late 1970s, with the last confirmed contact around 1978 in Oklahoma City and some accounts placing her last sighting in 1977. She was a white woman about five feet to five feet three inches tall, roughly 120 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, a tattoo on her right ankle and possibly another on her lower right leg. In the mid-1970s she had been living at a juvenile shelter in Tecumseh called Girlstown and was navigating a difficult life that included drug use and reported involvement in sex work.

Teresa had a 1975 grand larceny conviction under the alias Kimbi Boyd and stopped reporting to her parole officer in 1977, which led to a warrant for her arrest. No missing person report was filed until 2004, after her mother died, when a younger sister reported her missing to the Tecumseh Police Department and the case was opened as an endangered, unsolved disappearance.

Very little else is known from the period when she disappeared and the long gap in records has made the investigation difficult. Did anyone in Oklahoma City or Tecumseh know Teresa, Bobby Boyd, or have information about her life after the late 1970s?