Have you seen this girl?

The ongoing case of Tyarra Williams

Dani Erinn
6 min readJan 20, 2021
Image from the Greensboro News and Crime.

About Tyarra

Tyarra was born on June 18th, 1996. For the first few years of her life, her parents were together until they split up when she was around the age of seven. She was very close with her mom (Danielle), and her brother but there isn’t much information on her relationship with her dad. Tyarra was known to be a very nurturing and kind person. She did well in high school and dated some. However, her mom closely monitored everything that Tyarra did, including her social media. It was very unlikely that Tyarra was talking to anyone that her mom did not know of.

As Tyarra got older, her and her mom started to argue more. Her mom neglected to give her the space that a young adult needed, and Tyarra ended up moving out with her grandma in a small apartment. Tyarra was not angry with her mom, but she knew that she needed her independence.

In 2014, Tyarra graduated from high school and began college a year later in the spring. She was planning on majoring in early childhood development and she loved working with children. She also had a passion for working with kids who had disabilities.

The day she disappeared.

On January 7th, 2016, Tyarra was getting ready to go to the college and enroll…

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Dani Erinn

I love writing true crime and fascinating stories about humans.