October 14, 2025 • 38 mins
The Council on Criminal Justice has estimated there was an 8% Increase in Domestic Violence Incidents in the United States following the Pandemic Stay-At-Home orders, while the Las Vegas Metro Police Department reported a 12 percent spike in domestic violence calls.
One woman’s kind gesture to a co-worker in need led to a whirlwind pandemic lockdown relationship, and later tragically resulted in her murder.
Her murderer remains at large, and her family needs your help to secure justice for Tiffany and ensure he faces the consequences of his actions.
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One woman’s kind gesture to a co-worker in need led to a whirlwind pandemic lockdown relationship, and later tragically resulted in her murder.
Her murderer remains at large, and her family needs your help to secure justice for Tiffany and ensure he faces the consequences of his actions.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
It was October twentieth, twenty twenty, when Tiffany Booth was
discovered murdered in the Nevada Desert. Her car had been
found on October ninth, and investigators quickly used technology to
locate her. While we're thankful that at least her fate
isn't a mystery like so many other cases, we cover
her very likely murderer at WARDO Clemente's location is still
a mystery.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Five years later, the reward for Clemente is still twenty
thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars from crime stoppers and ten
thousand from the FBI. He may be using the alias
Daniel Trent. When Tiffany's friend, Bree Tovar and Tiffany's mother
were trying to locate Tiffany in September of twenty twenty,
they found dozens of social media accounts under the name
(00:54):
Daniel Trent, all containing pictures of Clemente. We've spoken to
Tiffany's cousin, an Angelina a few times since we released
the episode, and we've made a few edits here and there,
but it's largely unchanged.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
One of the things she said when we last chatted
was to reiterate that he's still out there and we
need to rally together to find him. He's dangerous and
I couldn't stand if he hurt another young woman. We
absolutely agree Eduardo or Eddie or Edward or whatever he's
calling himself is out there, still at large, and he
has to pay for what he did to Tiffany. We
(01:28):
do want to note that in the original episode we
said that at Wardo didn't have a sister, but in
fact we're told that he did so when he claimed
that his sister was trying to kill him when he
asked to move in with Tiffany. We now know that
that sister does apparently exist, at least.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
In the episode, we mentioned that Clemente got a ride
back from Eli, Nevada, where he was found sleeping in
someone's yard. The people that gave him that ride dropped
him off at a hospital in Henderson, where he claimed
his brother worked, which points towards someone having seen him
here locally since the murder. We also talked in the
episode about Hailey Gray's True Crime Training course, and since
(02:03):
we aired this originally, the course has been rebranded to
the True Crime Research Training Course and you can find
that at Truecrimeresearch Training dot Com. If you're interested in
the research end of what we do, we recommend checking
that out. So, without further delay, here's our episode flashback
on the murder of Tiffany Booth.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
The Council on Criminal Justice has estimated there was an
eight percent increase in domestic violence incidents in the United
States following the pandemic state at home orders, while the
Las Vegas Metro Police Department reported a twelve percent spike
in domestic violence calls.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
One woman's kind gesture to a coworker in need led
to a whirlwind pandemic lockdown relationship and later tragically resulted
in her murder. Her murderer remains at large and her
family needs your help to secure justice for Tiffany and
I'm sure he faces the consequences of his actions.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Hi, and Welcome to Sins and Survivors, a Las Vegas
true crime podcast where we focus on cases that deal
with domestic violence.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I'm your host Sean.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
And I'm your co host John.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
All Right, before we.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Get into the case, I want to take a minute
and thank Hailey Gray for her research on this case.
Haley shared this information about what we're going to talk
about in this episode with other podcasts to really spread
the word about this case. Haley is part of the
team behind True Crime podcast Training, so if you're listening
(03:40):
and thinking about starting your own podcast or maybe becoming
a podcast researcher, you should look into their course.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
The True Crime Podcasting Training course was really helpful to us.
It definitely helped me understand just how many places there
are out there to help with researching podcasts, things like
court records, newspaper archive of things that I didn't even
know existed before. So we both definitely recommend that for
podcasters or podcast researchers.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
And you can find them at Truecrime Podcasting dot com.
This episode today is about Tiffany Booth, who was reported
missing from Las Vegas on October fifth, twenty twenty, and
later was unfortunately found tragically murdered. And John, even though
we live here in Las Vegas and unlike the other
(04:28):
cases we've discussed so far on Sins and Survivors. I
do not remember hearing about this case firsthand. I actually
learned about it because some of the podcasts that Haley
shared her research with discussed what had happened to Tiffany.
But before that I had never heard of it. And
actually one of the complaints of Tiffany's family was that
(04:51):
there was not a lot of media coverage when Tiffany
was first found to be missing. And I just want
to say that that's why we are doing this episode,
because we need to bring more attention to these cases
and cases in Nevada and Las Vegas, especially ones like
these that have a domestic violence component.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And I actually found out about this case from you
after you learned about it. I remember us wondering at
the time, why what was going on? Were we just
not paying attention? Was there not enough news media coverage
or what was going on? Part of it definitely was
that I had been off Facebook for a while at
that point, and I don't think we were watching the
news very consistently, even though it was during the pandemic.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
It's also really surprising to me that since this happened
in late twenty twenty, kind of during the height of
the COVID pandemic during the second wave, I guess it was,
and we still didn't hear about it. I'm not really
sure why that is, because what else were we doing
besides streaming Netflix content. Regardless, though, with cases like this
one where we have a very strong suspect who has
(05:56):
simply disappeared, just like Tabitha Tozi's case that we covered
life last week, it's so important to get the word
out about what happened to get the murder suspect, Eduardo
Clemente in this case, get his face out there so
people know to look for him. Just like Nate Sanchez
last week. Tiffany's murder is out there and he needs
to be brought in.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Absolutely, I agree with you that Tiffany disappeared in October
of twenty twenty, and yeah, that was the height of
COVID and she, unfortunately may have just been lost in
the shuffle of other news with everything else that was
happening at that time. To start us off, I'll just
share some background information on who Tiffany was. So Tiffany
(06:39):
was born on June eleventh, nineteen eighty five, making her
thirty five years old when she disappeared. Tiffany was an
extremely family oriented person. She moved to Las Vegas in
twenty nineteen from San Antonio, Texas, specifically to help out
her mom, Judy. Her mom was having some health issues
and Tiffany stepped up to be there for her, and
(07:00):
the two of them shared a condo in Vegas. And
to me, this sounds like a very Vegas story.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
A lot of people end up moving here because their
family members have moved here. Your family, your entire family
basically moved here because you were here. And for me,
my mom moved here about eighteen months ago, so that's
really typical.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And one of the things her family has said about
Tiffany is that she was the glue that held them together,
And to me, this really highlights what her loss means
to everyone around her. Tiffany was an animal lover. She
had a beloved cat called Fluffy Kitty that of course
she adored. She was a Seattle Seahawks fan, and according
(07:44):
to her family, she was extremely caring. I mean, I
think that show is with her relocating her life to
be here for her mom, but she was always looking
out for others. And helping people out, and as a result,
her family has said that Tiffany could be vulnerable, potentially
to manipulation because she had such a good heart and
she was just a very trusting person. Tiffany worked in it.
(08:08):
She was interested in Disney, genealogy and true crime, and
she loved playing board games with her family late into
the night. She was also great with kids and hoped
to work with children one day.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
One story that has been shared is that Tiffany was
amazing with Angelina's son, who has autism. Angelina mentioned that
her son used to struggle with his breathing treatments and
hated wearing his mask. Tiffany also had asthma, important for
later in the story, and she would send him pictures
of herself doing the same treatments and she would say, see,
(08:45):
grown ups have to do this too, And then she
also would show him how to use his mask very patiently.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, it sounds like she was just such a loving person,
and I know that her family is in a lot
of pain after what happened to her. Tiffany having asthma
became a major concern once the pandemic hit in March
of twenty twenty Judy, her mom contracted COVID and to
avoid putting Tiffany's health at risk, Judy moved in with
(09:13):
Judy's boyfriend and Tiffany stayed at the condo by herself. Well,
Fluffy Kitty was there with her too, and around the
same time her coworker EDWARDO Clemente. He approached Tiffany with
a bit of a pity play, maybe so he lies
to her and claims that he doesn't have a place
to stay because his sister tried to kill him, and
(09:35):
he asked to stay with Tiffany on her couch, and
Tiffany let him move in as her roommate. And at
first they were just living together as friends and roommates.
Tiffany would refer to Eduardo as her roommate to her mom,
friends and family, etc. But she didn't even say to
her family that she was living with a guy. She
(09:55):
would just say my roommate. Buteduardo and Tiffany's relationship changed
around July of twenty twenty and they became more than roommates.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I think we all remember how weird things were during
the summer of twenty twenty. We weren't even really beyond
the initial outbreak yet, and we weren't even doing those
things where we would meet up in parks fifty feet
apart to talk to each other. So I can sort
of see how a relationship that started in the midst
of all that, in the middle of lockdown such as
(10:27):
it was, could become intense really quickly. One of the
things I know that you taught me was that domestic
violence rates increased during that period of the pandemic. When
you think about the incredibly high unemployment, which was honestly
much worse here in the Las Vegas area and took
a lot longer to go back down when the pandemic
ended if you add in the isolation. I've kind of
(10:48):
always suspected that the domestic violence rate here might have
increased a bit more than it did in other places.
So later in September, Tiffany started telling her friends in
some of her family about Eduardo, but she still kept
it from her mom. At that point, Tiffany confided in
her cousin Angelina and said things about Eduardo and referred
(11:08):
to him as a teddy bear and that she's never
felt that sway before, and even referred to him as
her prince charming Angelina has said in retrospect that Tiffany
was absolutely being love bombed, but at the time, as
she told John Walsh on in Pursuit, she said, Eduardo
quote seemed like a perfect fit unquote. And this is
another thing that I've learned from you is that it's
(11:31):
a very common pattern for abusers to use love bombing
as a way to ingratiate themselves with people. They'll shower
the person with all that love and affection and get
them hooked, which is another form of manipulation through giving
that affection.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
And it seems like the men.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Who do this always know how to pick their love
bomb target somehow.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I remember when we were discussing this case and you
heard some of those details about how fast their relationship
were and what Tiffany was saying about Eduardo, and you said, oh,
that's love bombing, like right away.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Yeah, yeah, it absolutely was.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Another thing I want to mention is that there's a
YouTube channel that we really love called pop Culture Detective.
They write and present long form essays on YouTube that
examine different things in as you'd expect, pop Culture will
include a link to their YouTube channel in the show
notes for you, so you can check them out. They
did one in twenty eighteen called Stalking for Love, which
(12:28):
talks about the trope of the persistent man who won't
take no for an answer. So this sort of thing
seems really innocuous or even endearing when it's in a
movie like fifty first States. That's a really particularly egregious
one or ten things I Hate about You, But it's
really insidious, and I'd argue that this type of behavior
really fits into that category. I think that video essay
(12:50):
is like twenty twenty three to twenty five minutes long,
and it's well worth a listen. It'll be in the
show notes, we'll include it there.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
So, according to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, when we're
talking about love bombing, love bombing is absolutely a form
of emotional abuse. When we're talking about love bombing, we
aren't talking about little nice things or gestures that a
person you're dating might do for you, like fixing your
coffee to go in the morning. We're talking about someone
who is violating your boundaries, which can be a sign
(13:18):
of an unhealthy relationship or abuse. So the DV hotlineless
these four.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Signs of love bombing.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Number one is someone saying that you're their soulmate or
very early, I love youse when you haven't known that
other person very long. This can feel very off putting,
so go with your gut if you're hearing these kinds
of things. Number two exaggerated compliments, not just you look
nice today, but really big statements like my life would
(13:49):
be nothing without you, or there's no one more perfect
than you. Number three is gifts, and again these will
be excessive gifts. Gifts given when there's no occasion for
a gift, or just over the top expensive or that
maybe cross a line, such as if the gift creates
some kind of reliance on the other person, like they
(14:11):
start paying your rent or your car payment, maybe they
take you on extreme high end vacations or buy you
luxury items, or if there's like a stipulation attached to
the gift where they might do like a quid pro quo,
like oh, I paid your phone bills, so don't ignore my.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Calls, or for communication overload.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
And of course, when you meet someone, maybe you talk
often or like for long periods of time because you're
just enjoying learning more about each other. But when the
communication becomes overwhelming, that's another sign you can look for.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
So this is one of those areas where I think
it's important as parents to have these conversations with our
male children about this. The idea that this gets normalized
in pop culture and memorialized in movies, this happens all
So it's really important that this be pointed out to
our male children and have it explained to them, and
(15:07):
explain to them.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Why this is just not acceptable.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
All the stuff you mentioned there, the excessive gifts, the
wild compliments, the I love yous, and the communication all
make my spidy senses just tingle. They just skeeve me out.
But I've also made a ton of my own mistakes
in this regard, and it would have been nice if
this had been explained to me when I was a
bit younger. This isn't stuff you're born knowing. You just
(15:31):
have to fumble your way through it. The darker side
of that, of course, is when you're thirty eight years
old and you should know better, and you do most
likely know better, and you know exactly what you're doing,
and you pray on someone specifically using these techniques.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Tiffany expressed to family in a group chat that her
mom wasn't in how she was head over heels Eduardo
that they were already talking about marriage. Now, remember they've
been living together under extreme circumstances, maybe four or five
months at this point, and only dating maybe two months,
and Tiffany is mentioning how Eduardo and her want to
(16:10):
have a Star Wars themed wedding, so.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
That actually sounds awesome, and it sounds like Tiffany was
really taken in by Eduardo at that point. On September
twenty seventh, Tiffany and Eduardo had dinner with Tiffany's mom, Judy,
and that was the first time that Judy had ever
met Eduardo. Tiffany finally came clean about her relationship with
Eduardo to Judy and told her that it was serious.
(16:36):
Judy says she found Eduardo to be normal, nice and
highly intelligent, but she thought he seemed secretive due to
a lack of information about his family. On Thursday, October first,
Judy received a text from Tiffany's phone number telling her
that she Tiffany needed to leave her condo because her
(16:56):
asthma was acting up and being aggravated by marijuana smo
coming through a neighbor's vents. She said that she and
Eduardo would be staying in Boulder City. So you and
I Sean live about twenty five thirty minutes from Boulder
City and like close enough that I can ride my
bike there.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
And Boulder City is great. I love it.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
They have cool restaurants like Cornish Pasty, and cool bars
like beer Zombies, and a really cool hotel like the
Boulder Damn Hotel that has a speakeasy in the basement.
So if you're going there for the day or for
an overnight from Henderson, that's definitely not weird at all.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yeah, it could be a really great time and a
nice way to get out of the bigger city of
Las Vegas.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
So I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I think that that's a completely understandable, understandable thing that
two people might do when they're feeling kind of like
they need to get out of their their condo, just
get away for a little bit.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Tiffany told her employer that she wouldn't be coming into
work on that Friday, October second, saying that they'd return
home that day, but she wouldn't be back to work
until Monday, October fifth. She also made plans to have
dinner with Judy on Sunday, the fourth. Judy seemed to
be pretty suspicious from the beginning, trying to contact Tiffany
by text on Thursday. Her friends have also said that
(18:16):
it was strange that Judy didn't hear back because she
and Tiffany were always in close contact, and weirdly, during
that time, Tiffany was active on social media, but she
wasn't liking or commenting, which was very strange.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah, the family thought it was odd that Tiffany wasn't
answering their texts, but they they've said, they didn't want
to worry too much or get into the worst case scenarios.
They seem to think that, you know, Tiffany and Eduardo,
they were in a new relationship. Possibly they even eloped,
which I guess is not out of the realm of possibility.
(18:52):
But the family also noticed that during this time, these
few days, they only received text from Tiffany.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
No one had spoken to her on the phone.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
So Judy had access to the security cameras at Tiffany's condo,
so she could log in and see that Tiffany's car
was gone, and she noticed that the security footage from
September twenty ninth September thirtieth and October first had all
been manually deleted, so this kind of made her concerned
(19:23):
about what's going on. And as we mentioned, Tiffany was
the glue of her family and friends, and she was
in several group chats, including a group of friends that
she had from San Antonio, and this group of friends
noticed that on October third and fourth that Tiffany's location
showed that she was in Idaho, which of course was
very strange. They did not understand why she would be
(19:44):
in Idaho.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Idaho is a seven and a half hour drive from
Las Vegas, about five hundred miles and definitely nowhere near
Boulder City, and location services on your phone just don't lie.
We talked two weeks ago about the dangers of airtech
eggs for stocking and the misuse of location tracking, but
in this case, it was absolutely crucial to figure out
(20:07):
what had happened and as well as to finally discovering
Tiffany's ultimate fate. On Monday, October fifth, both Tiffany and
Eduardo had not returned to work, which was very unusual
for Tiffany. Despite attempts to contact them, no one could
reach either of them, so obviously Judy was concerned, so
(20:30):
she started texting Tiffany about the cat, Fuzzy Kitty, to
see if the cat was okay and if she needed
help with the cat, and again received no response. So
this really made Judy even more worried because Tiffany would
never leave without setting up proper care for her cat
and responding to questions about her kitty. So given that,
(20:50):
Judy and her boyfriend decided to investigate by going to
Tiffany's condo, and really alarmingly, they discovered that there was
no food or water for Fuzzy Kitty and all. Also,
none of Tiffany's belongings were gone, which was really concerning
because they had allegedly gone to Boulder City and probably
would have taken something. And even worse, Judy found Tiffany's
(21:12):
asthma medication her apartment, which was ostensibly the reason that
they left in the first place, because her asthma was
acting up so very strange, she wouldn't have taken that
with her, and on top of that, she did not
take her laptop, which was very odd for her. So
at that point, on the same day, Monday, October fifth,
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Judy reported both Tiffany and Eduardo as missing persons, because
remember at that point, everyone thought they were together and
they were both missing, and this prompted an investigation by
Las Vegas Metro Missing Persons detectives. Initially, some members of
Tiffany's family felt that the response from the detectives was inadequate,
and I don't doubt that at all. Despite the family
(21:56):
expressing their concerns and the belief that something was seriously
the police seem to dismiss this situation and adopt the
attitude that, well, she's a grown woman, she can do
what she wants, and if she wants to come back,
she'll come back. And I feel like this is something
you hear of all too often in these cases. So
a person is missing, the family calls the police because
(22:17):
they know something's wrong, and either the police refuse to
open a missing person's case until a certain number of
hours have passed, or the police don't investigate vigorously, typically
with some variation on the excuse that the alleged person
is an adult and they can go where they want,
which is true, but no one knows that person better
than their family. What gets lost in those cases when
(22:42):
those get opened is that the families are telling the
police that this is really unlikely for this person and
they need to be treated as a missing person, but
they're just often ignored.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
The statistics we.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Were able to find out about how many missing persons
reports are filed in Las Vegas each year were varied.
Las Vegas Metro Police Department says they receive ten missing
adult reports every day, more than three hundred a month,
and that is just the adults. Without a doubt, that
number would put a huge strain on resources. And while
(23:16):
I respect that without evidence of harm or Tiffany being
in danger, I understand the police point of view that
they wanted to keep waiting. Another source mentioned that there
are eight thousand missing juvenile reports made every year across
the state of Nevada, so the majority of those would
be in the Las Vegas area because that's where about
(23:37):
seventy five percent of the state's population resides in the
Clark County Las Vegas area. So based on that, I'm
estimating that would be another five hundred missing kid reports
each month that the police are dealing with on top
of the adult reports.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
So those statistics are just bananas to me. I find
it so hard to believe that eight hundred people go
missing a month here, and it kind of explains why
they're hesitant to chase down every lead about every missing person,
So I do get that. The next day, the police
did end up going to the condo, but apparently somehow
(24:20):
didn't find anything suspicious, including the things we mentioned earlier.
I'm not really sure how her asthma medication being left
behind wasn't considered suspicious. But also that same day, Tiffany's
Facebook was shut down, which shocked the family but was
obviously very painful knowing how much of her personal information
(24:40):
in the form of posts and photos had just been lost.
Another friend of Tiffany's named Brie arrived in Las Vegas
on October seventh and started assisting Judy and Tiffany's cousin
Angelina in investigating what had been going on. They were
able to get into Tiffany's bank account and see her
bank information to see where her her card was being used,
(25:01):
and it turns out that it had been used on
October sixth in Twin Falls, Idaho to buy food and gas.
They started looking into Eduardo and found that he had
several aliases and dozens of social media accounts that used
his same picture but with the name Daniel, Trent, Judy,
and Tiffany's at Mindy also found materials in the condo
(25:23):
to make fake IDs that apparently belong to Eduardo, and
even found one of the.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Fake id's he'd created.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
So Tiffany's cousin, Angelina, had started a Facebook page to
raise awareness about what they thought at the time was
the disappearance of Eduardo and Tiffany.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
So when they felt.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
That what the police said had told them was inadequate
and maybe the police weren't working hard enough, Angelina went
to social media, built this Facebook page and started spreading
the word about her missing cousin Tiffany and Tiffany's boyfriend Eduardo.
So family and friends they teamed up on this Facebook
page to share photos and information and to try and
(26:01):
locate the couple. So, as a result of all of
these efforts, on October seventh, Angelina got a text from
a friend who lives in Eli, Nevada, and this text said,
quote is this Eduardo unquote? And the friend included a
photo and it was Eduardo. It turned out this friend's
neighbor had found Eduardo sleeping in her yard. He had
(26:24):
a wagon with computer stuff and was calling himself Daniel.
He was crying a lot, and he went with another
pity play like he had with Tiffany, claiming his mom
had died and that he was on a spiritual walk
from Idaho to Henderson, Nevada. Just for context, that's seven
hundred miles, So if you walked for twelve hours a day,
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that's a trip that would take you at least two weeks.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
This part of the story is really bizarre to me.
Eely has a very small population of less than four
thousand people, and it's quite a drive north until you
realize that Eduardo has had ties to Ali in the past.
By the time this tip came through to Tiffany's family,
it was too late because the family whose lawn he
slept on had already given him a ride to Henderson.
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So he was gone and that was the last credible
sighting of Eduardo that we know about.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
The next day, October eighth, Tiffany's car is found abandoned
near Ely by two police officers who happened to be
off duty and hunting in the area. The police officers
they noted the car had no license plates, and they
found a receipt from a Twin Falls, Idaho Walmart showing
the purchase of survival gear or camping gear on October third,
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and when they pulled the surveillance footage from that transaction,
it was definitely Eduardo, but Tiffany wasn't with him. The
police decided to have the car toad so they could
perform a more thorough search, and then on October tenth,
they executed a warrant to search Tiffany's condo. They find
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aspirated blood spatter on one of the door frames and
a powder on the carpet that they believe is carpet cleaner,
as if someone had cleaned up. There were also several
rolls of saran wrap, which the police suspected may have
been used to wrap a wound to stop the bleeding.
At this time, the detectives finally believed that Tiffany had
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been the victim of a homicide.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Then, on October eleventh, they execute a search warrant on
Tiffany's car and they discovered a GPS tracker that had
been placed on it. Eduardo's bank statements showed the purchase
of a GPS tracker in early September of twenty twenty.
According to Tiffany's family. They believe eduardos installed the trackers
out of jealousy to monitors Tiffany's whereabouts. This also brings
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us back to the last episode where we talked about
people using air tags to stock people there in. Relationships
with air tags didn't exist back then, but I have
no doubt that if they did, Eduardo would have been
using an air tag for this purpose. It turns out, though,
that Eduardo had inadvertently left the GPS tracker on Tiffany's
car when he dunked the car, so, of course, the
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detectives requested the GPS data for the specific days in
the past week. The data revealed that on September thirtieth
and October first, the GPS tracker, still attached to the car,
traveled north on US ninety five to the desert southwest
of Indian Springs, which is approximately forty five miles from
Las Vegas. The tracker stayed in the desert for a
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period of time before eventually leaving the area.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Following this GPS data, the detectives went into the desert
and discovered Tiffany's body. She was found wrapped in a
blanket and plastic just over a Rocky Ravine. The GPS
tracker that Eduardo had placed on the car became a
map to locate Tiffany's remains ultimately, and it was later
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revealed that Edwardo had previously lived in Indian Spring, so
he is familiar with the area. The autopsy determined that
Tiffany had died from blunt force trauma. On October twenty eighth,
Eduardo was officially announced as a suspect in charge with
her murder, as well as vehicle theft and using a
bank card without consent. A few weeks after Tiffany's murder,
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a coworker of hers and Eduardo's came forward to provide
information to the police. According to the coworker, Tiffany had
confided in him before her death, revealing that Edwardo was
mentally abusive. Eduardo would belittle her, make her feel worthless,
and at times physically shove her. I don't know what
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the coworker may have said in response to Tiffany when
she came forward with this information to him, but I
think this is a good time just to say that
if this happens to you, to do your best to
listen and empathize with your colleague or friend, and if
you feel it's a propriate, remind them about the domestic
violence hotline, the national hotline or your local hotline, and
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any resources that may be your work your employer offers
that could be helpful, like an EAP program or another
mental health resource. And then you can ask your colleague
what they want to do and how you can be supportive.
But this same coworker recounted that he received a butt
dial from Eduardo at four twenty six a m. On
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September thirtieth, and during the accidental call, the co worker
could hear arguing and yelling, and Eduardo repeatedly stating quote
he wanted the truth un quote, and as the argument intensified,
the call abruptly ended, leaving the co worker concern for
Tiffany's safety. Tiffany's family shared with investigators that the couple
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was apparently arguing due to communication from one of Tiffany's
ex boyfriends, Edwardo's extreme jealousy prohibited Tiffany from interacting with
other men. So, based on this collective information, Las Vegas
Metro detectives reconstructed the events leading to Tiffany's death and
the conclusion they reached is that on the morning of
September thirtieth, an intense argument erupted between Eduardo and Tiffany
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concerning her past relationships. The confrontation escalated into a physical altercation,
resulting in Eduardo murdering Tiffany. Tiffany was cremated and her
remains were interred alongside her grandparents, a gesture that had
significant emotional importance for the family.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
On November nineteenth, authorities held a press conference to announce
that Eduardo is still being sought, with the possibility that
he was hiding, potentially in remote areas such as the
mountains in northeastern Nevada, particularly near the Ruby Mountains near Eli, Nevada,
and possibly into Idaho. Judy, Tiffany's mother, appealed to Eduardo
during the conference, urging him to surrender for the sake
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of closure for both families. Following the issue of the
arrest warrant, the FBI joined efforts to locate Eduardo due
to his it background. Investigators noted that Eduardo had skillfully
covered his digital tracks, and they believed he had also
altered his physical appearance, potentially losing as much as one
hundred and fifty pounds to make identification more challenging. The
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police emphasized that he is dangerous and trying extremely hard
to avoid being brought in. As of today, November twenty
twenty three, he is still at large. Eduardo Clemente, who
may be using an alias Daniel Trent, is a white
male six feet two inches. At the time he was
last seen, he weighed approximately three hundred and seventy five pounds,
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but however, is noted he could have lost up to
one hundred and fifty pounds since then. He could be
hiding in plain sight, in communities of people experiencing homelessness,
or really anywhere in Nevada, Idaho, or Montana. Crime Stoppers
is offering a ten thousand dollars reward, and the FBI
has added an additional ten thousand dollars reward for information
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leading to his arrest. Anyone with information about him is
asked to call Las Vegas Metro Homicide at seven oh
two eight two eight three five two one, or to
email homicide at LVMPD dot com. If you want to
remain anonymous, contact crime Stoppers at seven oh two three
eight five five five five five, or report a tip
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online at crimestoppersofenv dot com. Of course, we'll share his
wanted poster and all the photos we have so we
can get his face out there so he can be
brought to justice.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
And this is why we are doing this episode. We
want to assist Judy and Angelina and all of Tiffany's
loved ones in getting justice for Tiffany. Angelina has been
quoted as saying, quote, I absolutely want justice for my
beautiful cousin, But at the same time, it's almost more
urgent for me because I don't want him to hurt
anybody else. I don't want another innocent, vulnerable girl to
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take him in. And you know, now that he's done
what he has done, if he's got to cover his tracks,
you know what I mean, crazy things happen and or
what if she found out who he was, and then
what kind of danger is that person?
Speaker 3 (35:14):
In unquote end quote.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Knowing what we've gone through, not for one second would
I ever want anyone else to ever ever go through
this unquote. In June twenty twenty two, Tiffany's family held
a celebration of life for Tiffany. They shared videos of
Tiffany dancing and rescuing birds Judy talked about how she
thinks of her daughter every day and how they used
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to love going to concerts together and playing bingo at
east Side Cannery, which is now closed. The family has
a GoFundMe that is active, I know for cases we've
covered so far, typically the Goldfundme has closed, but Tiffany's
family still needs help. They are seeking funding to help
pay for a billboard in Henderson to get Eduardo's face
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and in from out there, and they have other expenses
related to the search for justice for Tiffany. And now
that Tiffany is gone, Judy needs more support from her
family in light of her illness, so they need financial
help to travel and support her. We invite all of
you to contribute to their GoFundMe if you can.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
And before we go, we want to conclude with another
quote from Angelina quote she was just amazing. I know,
we say it all the time because it's really common
to romanticize people after they pass away. They're all wonderful.
They never did anything wrong, you know. But the only
thing you could say about Tiffany is that she was
so kind, just so kind and loving and just giving
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and genuine. She was just one of those people that
would do anything for you unquote. We did communicate briefly
with Angelina, and I want to stress that they are
desperate for any leads in this case. So please share
the information about Eduardo and please also like and follow
the Help Find Justice for Tiffany Booth facebook page. Thanks
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
It was October twentieth, twenty twenty, when Tiffany Booth was
discovered murdered in the Nevada Desert. Her car had been
found on October ninth, and investigators quickly used technology to
locate her. While we're thankful that at least her fate
isn't a mystery like so many other cases, we cover
her very likely murderer at WARDO Clemente's location is still
a mystery.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Five years later, the reward for Clemente is still twenty
thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars from crime stoppers and ten
thousand from the FBI. He may be using the alias
Daniel Trent. When Tiffany's friend, Bree Tovar and Tiffany's mother
were trying to locate Tiffany in September of twenty twenty,
they found dozens of social media accounts under the name
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Daniel Trent, all containing pictures of Clemente. We've spoken to
Tiffany's cousin, an Angelina a few times since we released
the episode, and we've made a few edits here and there,
but it's largely unchanged.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
One of the things she said when we last chatted
was to reiterate that he's still out there and we
need to rally together to find him. He's dangerous and
I couldn't stand if he hurt another young woman. We
absolutely agree Eduardo or Eddie or Edward or whatever he's
calling himself is out there, still at large, and he
has to pay for what he did to Tiffany. We
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do want to note that in the original episode we
said that at Wardo didn't have a sister, but in
fact we're told that he did so when he claimed
that his sister was trying to kill him when he
asked to move in with Tiffany. We now know that
that sister does apparently exist, at least.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
In the episode, we mentioned that Clemente got a ride
back from Eli, Nevada, where he was found sleeping in
someone's yard. The people that gave him that ride dropped
him off at a hospital in Henderson, where he claimed
his brother worked, which points towards someone having seen him
here locally since the murder. We also talked in the
episode about Hailey Gray's True Crime Training course, and since
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we aired this originally, the course has been rebranded to
the True Crime Research Training Course and you can find
that at Truecrimeresearch Training dot Com. If you're interested in
the research end of what we do, we recommend checking
that out. So, without further delay, here's our episode flashback
on the murder of Tiffany Booth.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
The Council on Criminal Justice has estimated there was an
eight percent increase in domestic violence incidents in the United
States following the pandemic state at home orders, while the
Las Vegas Metro Police Department reported a twelve percent spike
in domestic violence calls.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
One woman's kind gesture to a coworker in need led
to a whirlwind pandemic lockdown relationship and later tragically resulted
in her murder. Her murderer remains at large and her
family needs your help to secure justice for Tiffany and
I'm sure he faces the consequences of his actions.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Hi, and Welcome to Sins and Survivors, a Las Vegas
true crime podcast where we focus on cases that deal
with domestic violence.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I'm your host Sean.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
And I'm your co host John.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
All Right, before we.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Get into the case, I want to take a minute
and thank Hailey Gray for her research on this case.
Haley shared this information about what we're going to talk
about in this episode with other podcasts to really spread
the word about this case. Haley is part of the
team behind True Crime podcast Training, so if you're listening
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and thinking about starting your own podcast or maybe becoming
a podcast researcher, you should look into their course.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
The True Crime Podcasting Training course was really helpful to us.
It definitely helped me understand just how many places there
are out there to help with researching podcasts, things like
court records, newspaper archive of things that I didn't even
know existed before. So we both definitely recommend that for
podcasters or podcast researchers.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
And you can find them at Truecrime Podcasting dot com.
This episode today is about Tiffany Booth, who was reported
missing from Las Vegas on October fifth, twenty twenty, and
later was unfortunately found tragically murdered. And John, even though
we live here in Las Vegas and unlike the other
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cases we've discussed so far on Sins and Survivors. I
do not remember hearing about this case firsthand. I actually
learned about it because some of the podcasts that Haley
shared her research with discussed what had happened to Tiffany.
But before that I had never heard of it. And
actually one of the complaints of Tiffany's family was that
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there was not a lot of media coverage when Tiffany
was first found to be missing. And I just want
to say that that's why we are doing this episode,
because we need to bring more attention to these cases
and cases in Nevada and Las Vegas, especially ones like
these that have a domestic violence component.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And I actually found out about this case from you
after you learned about it. I remember us wondering at
the time, why what was going on? Were we just
not paying attention? Was there not enough news media coverage
or what was going on? Part of it definitely was
that I had been off Facebook for a while at
that point, and I don't think we were watching the
news very consistently, even though it was during the pandemic.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
It's also really surprising to me that since this happened
in late twenty twenty, kind of during the height of
the COVID pandemic during the second wave, I guess it was,
and we still didn't hear about it. I'm not really
sure why that is, because what else were we doing
besides streaming Netflix content. Regardless, though, with cases like this
one where we have a very strong suspect who has
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simply disappeared, just like Tabitha Tozi's case that we covered
life last week, it's so important to get the word
out about what happened to get the murder suspect, Eduardo
Clemente in this case, get his face out there so
people know to look for him. Just like Nate Sanchez
last week. Tiffany's murder is out there and he needs
to be brought in.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Absolutely, I agree with you that Tiffany disappeared in October
of twenty twenty, and yeah, that was the height of
COVID and she, unfortunately may have just been lost in
the shuffle of other news with everything else that was
happening at that time. To start us off, I'll just
share some background information on who Tiffany was. So Tiffany
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was born on June eleventh, nineteen eighty five, making her
thirty five years old when she disappeared. Tiffany was an
extremely family oriented person. She moved to Las Vegas in
twenty nineteen from San Antonio, Texas, specifically to help out
her mom, Judy. Her mom was having some health issues
and Tiffany stepped up to be there for her, and
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the two of them shared a condo in Vegas. And
to me, this sounds like a very Vegas story.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
A lot of people end up moving here because their
family members have moved here. Your family, your entire family
basically moved here because you were here. And for me,
my mom moved here about eighteen months ago, so that's
really typical.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And one of the things her family has said about
Tiffany is that she was the glue that held them together,
And to me, this really highlights what her loss means
to everyone around her. Tiffany was an animal lover. She
had a beloved cat called Fluffy Kitty that of course
she adored. She was a Seattle Seahawks fan, and according
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to her family, she was extremely caring. I mean, I
think that show is with her relocating her life to
be here for her mom, but she was always looking
out for others. And helping people out, and as a result,
her family has said that Tiffany could be vulnerable, potentially
to manipulation because she had such a good heart and
she was just a very trusting person. Tiffany worked in it.
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She was interested in Disney, genealogy and true crime, and
she loved playing board games with her family late into
the night. She was also great with kids and hoped
to work with children one day.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
One story that has been shared is that Tiffany was
amazing with Angelina's son, who has autism. Angelina mentioned that
her son used to struggle with his breathing treatments and
hated wearing his mask. Tiffany also had asthma, important for
later in the story, and she would send him pictures
of herself doing the same treatments and she would say, see,
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grown ups have to do this too, And then she
also would show him how to use his mask very patiently.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, it sounds like she was just such a loving person,
and I know that her family is in a lot
of pain after what happened to her. Tiffany having asthma
became a major concern once the pandemic hit in March
of twenty twenty Judy, her mom contracted COVID and to
avoid putting Tiffany's health at risk, Judy moved in with
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Judy's boyfriend and Tiffany stayed at the condo by herself. Well,
Fluffy Kitty was there with her too, and around the
same time her coworker EDWARDO Clemente. He approached Tiffany with
a bit of a pity play, maybe so he lies
to her and claims that he doesn't have a place
to stay because his sister tried to kill him, and
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he asked to stay with Tiffany on her couch, and
Tiffany let him move in as her roommate. And at
first they were just living together as friends and roommates.
Tiffany would refer to Eduardo as her roommate to her mom,
friends and family, etc. But she didn't even say to
her family that she was living with a guy. She
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would just say my roommate. Buteduardo and Tiffany's relationship changed
around July of twenty twenty and they became more than roommates.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I think we all remember how weird things were during
the summer of twenty twenty. We weren't even really beyond
the initial outbreak yet, and we weren't even doing those
things where we would meet up in parks fifty feet
apart to talk to each other. So I can sort
of see how a relationship that started in the midst
of all that, in the middle of lockdown such as
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it was, could become intense really quickly. One of the
things I know that you taught me was that domestic
violence rates increased during that period of the pandemic. When
you think about the incredibly high unemployment, which was honestly
much worse here in the Las Vegas area and took
a lot longer to go back down when the pandemic
ended if you add in the isolation. I've kind of
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always suspected that the domestic violence rate here might have
increased a bit more than it did in other places.
So later in September, Tiffany started telling her friends in
some of her family about Eduardo, but she still kept
it from her mom. At that point, Tiffany confided in
her cousin Angelina and said things about Eduardo and referred
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to him as a teddy bear and that she's never
felt that sway before, and even referred to him as
her prince charming Angelina has said in retrospect that Tiffany
was absolutely being love bombed, but at the time, as
she told John Walsh on in Pursuit, she said, Eduardo
quote seemed like a perfect fit unquote. And this is
another thing that I've learned from you is that it's
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a very common pattern for abusers to use love bombing
as a way to ingratiate themselves with people. They'll shower
the person with all that love and affection and get
them hooked, which is another form of manipulation through giving
that affection.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
And it seems like the men.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Who do this always know how to pick their love
bomb target somehow.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I remember when we were discussing this case and you
heard some of those details about how fast their relationship
were and what Tiffany was saying about Eduardo, and you said, oh,
that's love bombing, like right away.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Yeah, yeah, it absolutely was.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Another thing I want to mention is that there's a
YouTube channel that we really love called pop Culture Detective.
They write and present long form essays on YouTube that
examine different things in as you'd expect, pop Culture will
include a link to their YouTube channel in the show
notes for you, so you can check them out. They
did one in twenty eighteen called Stalking for Love, which
(12:28):
talks about the trope of the persistent man who won't
take no for an answer. So this sort of thing
seems really innocuous or even endearing when it's in a
movie like fifty first States. That's a really particularly egregious
one or ten things I Hate about You, But it's
really insidious, and I'd argue that this type of behavior
really fits into that category. I think that video essay
(12:50):
is like twenty twenty three to twenty five minutes long,
and it's well worth a listen. It'll be in the
show notes, we'll include it there.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
So, according to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, when we're
talking about love bombing, love bombing is absolutely a form
of emotional abuse. When we're talking about love bombing, we
aren't talking about little nice things or gestures that a
person you're dating might do for you, like fixing your
coffee to go in the morning. We're talking about someone
who is violating your boundaries, which can be a sign
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of an unhealthy relationship or abuse. So the DV hotlineless
these four.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Signs of love bombing.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Number one is someone saying that you're their soulmate or
very early, I love youse when you haven't known that
other person very long. This can feel very off putting,
so go with your gut if you're hearing these kinds
of things. Number two exaggerated compliments, not just you look
nice today, but really big statements like my life would
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be nothing without you, or there's no one more perfect
than you. Number three is gifts, and again these will
be excessive gifts. Gifts given when there's no occasion for
a gift, or just over the top expensive or that
maybe cross a line, such as if the gift creates
some kind of reliance on the other person, like they
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start paying your rent or your car payment, maybe they
take you on extreme high end vacations or buy you
luxury items, or if there's like a stipulation attached to
the gift where they might do like a quid pro quo,
like oh, I paid your phone bills, so don't ignore my.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Calls, or for communication overload.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
And of course, when you meet someone, maybe you talk
often or like for long periods of time because you're
just enjoying learning more about each other. But when the
communication becomes overwhelming, that's another sign you can look for.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
So this is one of those areas where I think
it's important as parents to have these conversations with our
male children about this. The idea that this gets normalized
in pop culture and memorialized in movies, this happens all
So it's really important that this be pointed out to
our male children and have it explained to them, and
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explain to them.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Why this is just not acceptable.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
All the stuff you mentioned there, the excessive gifts, the
wild compliments, the I love yous, and the communication all
make my spidy senses just tingle. They just skeeve me out.
But I've also made a ton of my own mistakes
in this regard, and it would have been nice if
this had been explained to me when I was a
bit younger. This isn't stuff you're born knowing. You just
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have to fumble your way through it. The darker side
of that, of course, is when you're thirty eight years
old and you should know better, and you do most
likely know better, and you know exactly what you're doing,
and you pray on someone specifically using these techniques.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Tiffany expressed to family in a group chat that her
mom wasn't in how she was head over heels Eduardo
that they were already talking about marriage. Now, remember they've
been living together under extreme circumstances, maybe four or five
months at this point, and only dating maybe two months,
and Tiffany is mentioning how Eduardo and her want to
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have a Star Wars themed wedding, so.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
That actually sounds awesome, and it sounds like Tiffany was
really taken in by Eduardo at that point. On September
twenty seventh, Tiffany and Eduardo had dinner with Tiffany's mom, Judy,
and that was the first time that Judy had ever
met Eduardo. Tiffany finally came clean about her relationship with
Eduardo to Judy and told her that it was serious.
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Judy says she found Eduardo to be normal, nice and
highly intelligent, but she thought he seemed secretive due to
a lack of information about his family. On Thursday, October first,
Judy received a text from Tiffany's phone number telling her
that she Tiffany needed to leave her condo because her
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asthma was acting up and being aggravated by marijuana smo
coming through a neighbor's vents. She said that she and
Eduardo would be staying in Boulder City. So you and
I Sean live about twenty five thirty minutes from Boulder
City and like close enough that I can ride my
bike there.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
And Boulder City is great. I love it.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
They have cool restaurants like Cornish Pasty, and cool bars
like beer Zombies, and a really cool hotel like the
Boulder Damn Hotel that has a speakeasy in the basement.
So if you're going there for the day or for
an overnight from Henderson, that's definitely not weird at all.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yeah, it could be a really great time and a
nice way to get out of the bigger city of
Las Vegas.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
So I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I think that that's a completely understandable, understandable thing that
two people might do when they're feeling kind of like
they need to get out of their their condo, just
get away for a little bit.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Tiffany told her employer that she wouldn't be coming into
work on that Friday, October second, saying that they'd return
home that day, but she wouldn't be back to work
until Monday, October fifth. She also made plans to have
dinner with Judy on Sunday, the fourth. Judy seemed to
be pretty suspicious from the beginning, trying to contact Tiffany
by text on Thursday. Her friends have also said that
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it was strange that Judy didn't hear back because she
and Tiffany were always in close contact, and weirdly, during
that time, Tiffany was active on social media, but she
wasn't liking or commenting, which was very strange.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah, the family thought it was odd that Tiffany wasn't
answering their texts, but they they've said, they didn't want
to worry too much or get into the worst case scenarios.
They seem to think that, you know, Tiffany and Eduardo,
they were in a new relationship. Possibly they even eloped,
which I guess is not out of the realm of possibility.
(18:52):
But the family also noticed that during this time, these
few days, they only received text from Tiffany.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
No one had spoken to her on the phone.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
So Judy had access to the security cameras at Tiffany's condo,
so she could log in and see that Tiffany's car
was gone, and she noticed that the security footage from
September twenty ninth September thirtieth and October first had all
been manually deleted, so this kind of made her concerned
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about what's going on. And as we mentioned, Tiffany was
the glue of her family and friends, and she was
in several group chats, including a group of friends that
she had from San Antonio, and this group of friends
noticed that on October third and fourth that Tiffany's location
showed that she was in Idaho, which of course was
very strange. They did not understand why she would be
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in Idaho.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Idaho is a seven and a half hour drive from
Las Vegas, about five hundred miles and definitely nowhere near
Boulder City, and location services on your phone just don't lie.
We talked two weeks ago about the dangers of airtech
eggs for stocking and the misuse of location tracking, but
in this case, it was absolutely crucial to figure out
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what had happened and as well as to finally discovering
Tiffany's ultimate fate. On Monday, October fifth, both Tiffany and
Eduardo had not returned to work, which was very unusual
for Tiffany. Despite attempts to contact them, no one could
reach either of them, so obviously Judy was concerned, so
(20:30):
she started texting Tiffany about the cat, Fuzzy Kitty, to
see if the cat was okay and if she needed
help with the cat, and again received no response. So
this really made Judy even more worried because Tiffany would
never leave without setting up proper care for her cat
and responding to questions about her kitty. So given that,
(20:50):
Judy and her boyfriend decided to investigate by going to
Tiffany's condo, and really alarmingly, they discovered that there was
no food or water for Fuzzy Kitty and all. Also,
none of Tiffany's belongings were gone, which was really concerning
because they had allegedly gone to Boulder City and probably
would have taken something. And even worse, Judy found Tiffany's
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asthma medication her apartment, which was ostensibly the reason that
they left in the first place, because her asthma was
acting up so very strange, she wouldn't have taken that
with her, and on top of that, she did not
take her laptop, which was very odd for her. So
at that point, on the same day, Monday, October fifth,
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Judy reported both Tiffany and Eduardo as missing persons, because
remember at that point, everyone thought they were together and
they were both missing, and this prompted an investigation by
Las Vegas Metro Missing Persons detectives. Initially, some members of
Tiffany's family felt that the response from the detectives was inadequate,
and I don't doubt that at all. Despite the family
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expressing their concerns and the belief that something was seriously
the police seem to dismiss this situation and adopt the
attitude that, well, she's a grown woman, she can do
what she wants, and if she wants to come back,
she'll come back. And I feel like this is something
you hear of all too often in these cases. So
a person is missing, the family calls the police because
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they know something's wrong, and either the police refuse to
open a missing person's case until a certain number of
hours have passed, or the police don't investigate vigorously, typically
with some variation on the excuse that the alleged person
is an adult and they can go where they want,
which is true, but no one knows that person better
than their family. What gets lost in those cases when
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those get opened is that the families are telling the
police that this is really unlikely for this person and
they need to be treated as a missing person, but
they're just often ignored.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
The statistics we.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Were able to find out about how many missing persons
reports are filed in Las Vegas each year were varied.
Las Vegas Metro Police Department says they receive ten missing
adult reports every day, more than three hundred a month,
and that is just the adults. Without a doubt, that
number would put a huge strain on resources. And while
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I respect that without evidence of harm or Tiffany being
in danger, I understand the police point of view that
they wanted to keep waiting. Another source mentioned that there
are eight thousand missing juvenile reports made every year across
the state of Nevada, so the majority of those would
be in the Las Vegas area because that's where about
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seventy five percent of the state's population resides in the
Clark County Las Vegas area. So based on that, I'm
estimating that would be another five hundred missing kid reports
each month that the police are dealing with on top
of the adult reports.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
So those statistics are just bananas to me. I find
it so hard to believe that eight hundred people go
missing a month here, and it kind of explains why
they're hesitant to chase down every lead about every missing person,
So I do get that. The next day, the police
did end up going to the condo, but apparently somehow
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didn't find anything suspicious, including the things we mentioned earlier.
I'm not really sure how her asthma medication being left
behind wasn't considered suspicious. But also that same day, Tiffany's
Facebook was shut down, which shocked the family but was
obviously very painful knowing how much of her personal information
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in the form of posts and photos had just been lost.
Another friend of Tiffany's named Brie arrived in Las Vegas
on October seventh and started assisting Judy and Tiffany's cousin
Angelina in investigating what had been going on. They were
able to get into Tiffany's bank account and see her
bank information to see where her her card was being used,
(25:01):
and it turns out that it had been used on
October sixth in Twin Falls, Idaho to buy food and gas.
They started looking into Eduardo and found that he had
several aliases and dozens of social media accounts that used
his same picture but with the name Daniel, Trent, Judy,
and Tiffany's at Mindy also found materials in the condo
(25:23):
to make fake IDs that apparently belong to Eduardo, and
even found one of the.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Fake id's he'd created.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
So Tiffany's cousin, Angelina, had started a Facebook page to
raise awareness about what they thought at the time was
the disappearance of Eduardo and Tiffany.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
So when they felt.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
That what the police said had told them was inadequate
and maybe the police weren't working hard enough, Angelina went
to social media, built this Facebook page and started spreading
the word about her missing cousin Tiffany and Tiffany's boyfriend Eduardo.
So family and friends they teamed up on this Facebook
page to share photos and information and to try and
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locate the couple. So, as a result of all of
these efforts, on October seventh, Angelina got a text from
a friend who lives in Eli, Nevada, and this text said,
quote is this Eduardo unquote? And the friend included a
photo and it was Eduardo. It turned out this friend's
neighbor had found Eduardo sleeping in her yard. He had
(26:24):
a wagon with computer stuff and was calling himself Daniel.
He was crying a lot, and he went with another
pity play like he had with Tiffany, claiming his mom
had died and that he was on a spiritual walk
from Idaho to Henderson, Nevada. Just for context, that's seven
hundred miles, So if you walked for twelve hours a day,
(26:44):
that's a trip that would take you at least two weeks.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
This part of the story is really bizarre to me.
Eely has a very small population of less than four
thousand people, and it's quite a drive north until you
realize that Eduardo has had ties to Ali in the past.
By the time this tip came through to Tiffany's family,
it was too late because the family whose lawn he
slept on had already given him a ride to Henderson.
(27:11):
So he was gone and that was the last credible
sighting of Eduardo that we know about.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
The next day, October eighth, Tiffany's car is found abandoned
near Ely by two police officers who happened to be
off duty and hunting in the area. The police officers
they noted the car had no license plates, and they
found a receipt from a Twin Falls, Idaho Walmart showing
the purchase of survival gear or camping gear on October third,
(27:41):
and when they pulled the surveillance footage from that transaction,
it was definitely Eduardo, but Tiffany wasn't with him. The
police decided to have the car toad so they could
perform a more thorough search, and then on October tenth,
they executed a warrant to search Tiffany's condo. They find
(28:02):
aspirated blood spatter on one of the door frames and
a powder on the carpet that they believe is carpet cleaner,
as if someone had cleaned up. There were also several
rolls of saran wrap, which the police suspected may have
been used to wrap a wound to stop the bleeding.
At this time, the detectives finally believed that Tiffany had
(28:27):
been the victim of a homicide.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Then, on October eleventh, they execute a search warrant on
Tiffany's car and they discovered a GPS tracker that had
been placed on it. Eduardo's bank statements showed the purchase
of a GPS tracker in early September of twenty twenty.
According to Tiffany's family. They believe eduardos installed the trackers
out of jealousy to monitors Tiffany's whereabouts. This also brings
(28:53):
us back to the last episode where we talked about
people using air tags to stock people there in. Relationships
with air tags didn't exist back then, but I have
no doubt that if they did, Eduardo would have been
using an air tag for this purpose. It turns out, though,
that Eduardo had inadvertently left the GPS tracker on Tiffany's
car when he dunked the car, so, of course, the
(29:15):
detectives requested the GPS data for the specific days in
the past week. The data revealed that on September thirtieth
and October first, the GPS tracker, still attached to the car,
traveled north on US ninety five to the desert southwest
of Indian Springs, which is approximately forty five miles from
Las Vegas. The tracker stayed in the desert for a
(29:38):
period of time before eventually leaving the area.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Following this GPS data, the detectives went into the desert
and discovered Tiffany's body. She was found wrapped in a
blanket and plastic just over a Rocky Ravine. The GPS
tracker that Eduardo had placed on the car became a
map to locate Tiffany's remains ultimately, and it was later
(30:02):
revealed that Edwardo had previously lived in Indian Spring, so
he is familiar with the area. The autopsy determined that
Tiffany had died from blunt force trauma. On October twenty eighth,
Eduardo was officially announced as a suspect in charge with
her murder, as well as vehicle theft and using a
bank card without consent. A few weeks after Tiffany's murder,
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a coworker of hers and Eduardo's came forward to provide
information to the police. According to the coworker, Tiffany had
confided in him before her death, revealing that Edwardo was
mentally abusive. Eduardo would belittle her, make her feel worthless,
and at times physically shove her. I don't know what
(30:45):
the coworker may have said in response to Tiffany when
she came forward with this information to him, but I
think this is a good time just to say that
if this happens to you, to do your best to
listen and empathize with your colleague or friend, and if
you feel it's a propriate, remind them about the domestic
violence hotline, the national hotline or your local hotline, and
(31:06):
any resources that may be your work your employer offers
that could be helpful, like an EAP program or another
mental health resource. And then you can ask your colleague
what they want to do and how you can be supportive.
But this same coworker recounted that he received a butt
dial from Eduardo at four twenty six a m. On
(31:28):
September thirtieth, and during the accidental call, the co worker
could hear arguing and yelling, and Eduardo repeatedly stating quote
he wanted the truth un quote, and as the argument intensified,
the call abruptly ended, leaving the co worker concern for
Tiffany's safety. Tiffany's family shared with investigators that the couple
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was apparently arguing due to communication from one of Tiffany's
ex boyfriends, Edwardo's extreme jealousy prohibited Tiffany from interacting with
other men. So, based on this collective information, Las Vegas
Metro detectives reconstructed the events leading to Tiffany's death and
the conclusion they reached is that on the morning of
September thirtieth, an intense argument erupted between Eduardo and Tiffany
(32:17):
concerning her past relationships. The confrontation escalated into a physical altercation,
resulting in Eduardo murdering Tiffany. Tiffany was cremated and her
remains were interred alongside her grandparents, a gesture that had
significant emotional importance for the family.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
On November nineteenth, authorities held a press conference to announce
that Eduardo is still being sought, with the possibility that
he was hiding, potentially in remote areas such as the
mountains in northeastern Nevada, particularly near the Ruby Mountains near Eli, Nevada,
and possibly into Idaho. Judy, Tiffany's mother, appealed to Eduardo
during the conference, urging him to surrender for the sake
(32:58):
of closure for both families. Following the issue of the
arrest warrant, the FBI joined efforts to locate Eduardo due
to his it background. Investigators noted that Eduardo had skillfully
covered his digital tracks, and they believed he had also
altered his physical appearance, potentially losing as much as one
hundred and fifty pounds to make identification more challenging. The
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police emphasized that he is dangerous and trying extremely hard
to avoid being brought in. As of today, November twenty
twenty three, he is still at large. Eduardo Clemente, who
may be using an alias Daniel Trent, is a white
male six feet two inches. At the time he was
last seen, he weighed approximately three hundred and seventy five pounds,
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but however, is noted he could have lost up to
one hundred and fifty pounds since then. He could be
hiding in plain sight, in communities of people experiencing homelessness,
or really anywhere in Nevada, Idaho, or Montana. Crime Stoppers
is offering a ten thousand dollars reward, and the FBI
has added an additional ten thousand dollars reward for information
(34:03):
leading to his arrest. Anyone with information about him is
asked to call Las Vegas Metro Homicide at seven oh
two eight two eight three five two one, or to
email homicide at LVMPD dot com. If you want to
remain anonymous, contact crime Stoppers at seven oh two three
eight five five five five five, or report a tip
(34:27):
online at crimestoppersofenv dot com. Of course, we'll share his
wanted poster and all the photos we have so we
can get his face out there so he can be
brought to justice.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
And this is why we are doing this episode. We
want to assist Judy and Angelina and all of Tiffany's
loved ones in getting justice for Tiffany. Angelina has been
quoted as saying, quote, I absolutely want justice for my
beautiful cousin, But at the same time, it's almost more
urgent for me because I don't want him to hurt
anybody else. I don't want another innocent, vulnerable girl to
(35:00):
take him in. And you know, now that he's done
what he has done, if he's got to cover his tracks,
you know what I mean, crazy things happen and or
what if she found out who he was, and then
what kind of danger is that person?
Speaker 3 (35:14):
In unquote end quote.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Knowing what we've gone through, not for one second would
I ever want anyone else to ever ever go through
this unquote. In June twenty twenty two, Tiffany's family held
a celebration of life for Tiffany. They shared videos of
Tiffany dancing and rescuing birds Judy talked about how she
thinks of her daughter every day and how they used
(35:38):
to love going to concerts together and playing bingo at
east Side Cannery, which is now closed. The family has
a GoFundMe that is active, I know for cases we've
covered so far, typically the Goldfundme has closed, but Tiffany's
family still needs help. They are seeking funding to help
pay for a billboard in Henderson to get Eduardo's face
(35:59):
and in from out there, and they have other expenses
related to the search for justice for Tiffany. And now
that Tiffany is gone, Judy needs more support from her
family in light of her illness, so they need financial
help to travel and support her. We invite all of
you to contribute to their GoFundMe if you can.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
And before we go, we want to conclude with another
quote from Angelina quote she was just amazing. I know,
we say it all the time because it's really common
to romanticize people after they pass away. They're all wonderful.
They never did anything wrong, you know. But the only
thing you could say about Tiffany is that she was
so kind, just so kind and loving and just giving
(36:42):
and genuine. She was just one of those people that
would do anything for you unquote. We did communicate briefly
with Angelina, and I want to stress that they are
desperate for any leads in this case. So please share
the information about Eduardo and please also like and follow
the Help Find Justice for Tiffany Booth facebook page. Thanks
as always for listening, and remember to subscribe and follow
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the National Domestic Violence Hotline. A list of resources is
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Speaker 1 (38:28):
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