Ten Years Later: Who Killed Amber Tuccaro?

The True Crime Times
16 min readAug 17, 2020
Amber Tuccaro — Source: Northern Plains Freelancer

I think we can all agree that video and audio recordings significantly increase the creepiness factor of a case. The disappearance of Canadian woman Amber Tuccaro is extremely disconcerting, thanks to a short snippet of audio in which Amber can be heard asking the man who was driving her where they were headed.

Amber knew the man wasn’t taking her where she wanted to go. You could hear the desperation and growing fear in her voice.

Ten years later, this case hasn’t been solved, in large part because the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) didn’t investigate when they should have.

This story will infuriate you because of the police’s complete indifference to Amber’s disappearance.

The Struggle for Independence

Amber and her mother, Vivian “Tootsie” Tuccaro — Source: CBC News

On January 3, 1990, Amber Alyssa Tuccaro was born in northern Alberta, Canada. [1] Andrew and Vivian “Tootsie” Tuccaro adopted Amber when she was just a baby. The couple already had four sons and were thrilled to have a baby girl in the family.

The Tuccaros were members of the Mikisew Cree First Nation. Andrew and Vivan started building their family in…

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