Tamara Toy – CUE – Community United Effort

Missing from: Manatee, Florida
Missing: May 06, 2006
Age at disappearance: 44
Height: 5’6″
Weight: 150
Hair Color: Blonde
Eye Color: Blue

Distinguishing Characteristics: Scars, Marks, Tattoos: Caucasian female. Tamara’s hair was dyed blonde at the time of her disappearance. She has surgical scars on her back from screw insertion, a tattoo of ivy on her lower back, and a Caesaraean section scar on her abdomen. Her ears are pierced.

Details of Disappearance: Tamara Toy was last seen in May, 2006, when she was staying at a hotel with her boyfriend, Glenn Bivens. Toy was last heard from in March, 2006. After spending Christmas up north with her family, she called her son in March, 2006. That was the last time anyone in the family spoke with her. They did receive two Easter cards, postmarked in Tampa, from Toy. She sent the cards to her children, who live with family in Ohio. Tamara’s last known location was at the Budget Inn, 8110 N. Tamiami Trail. That’s where she was staying with Bivens, who was arrested May 13 after almost running into a deputy in a patrol car. Tamara was not at the motel at that time, but the family said they found out from the motel manager that she made a rent payment May 6. A man named Steve Cherok began paying for that motel room May 7. Bivens died when he jumped off the second floor of the Manatee County Jail in May, 2006. Before his suicide, Bivens told some of his fellow inmates that Toy had overdosed on drugs and he buried her body, but he gave no further details, according to police.Toy had an addiction to painkillers, a habit she picked up when she was a nurse on the East Coast, according to Hock. For detectives, the case is that of a missing person, and will be until the body is found.

Investigative Agency: Manatee County Sheriff’s Office (941) 747-3011

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