Daffany Tullos was last seen walking in Jackson, Mississippi, on the evening of July 26, 1988, after leaving her grandparents’ home in the 4400 block of Azalea Circle. She had been living with her grandparents while her mother lived on Bailey Avenue. Family accounts say Daffany left between 7:00 and 8:00 p.m. after an argument with her mother about fish sticks and was seen heading toward Northside Drive — she never returned and has not been heard from since, which was out of character for her.

In the weeks before Daffany’s disappearance, police investigated allegations that the mother’s boyfriend, Ernest Lee Epps, had inappropriately touched the child on June 29. Epps was arrested on July 8 for sexual battery, released on bail the morning of July 26, and later passed a polygraph in Daffany’s case; the child’s mother also passed a polygraph. Daffany’s biological father was ruled out as a suspect; both he and Epps are now deceased. Tips that followed included leads as far away as Michigan, but no one has been able to determine what happened to Daffany.

Did anyone in the Jackson area around Azalea Circle or Northside Drive in July 1988 see Daffany that night or have information that could help explain her disappearance?