Trukita Scott was last seen after she left work in Fort Lauderdale, Florida at 2:00 p.m. on June 25, 2014. She was supposed to pick up her two toddlers from day care, but never arrived. She has never been heard from again. Her cellular phone was turned off at 4:00 p.m., after she sent a text message to her fiance saying she loved him.
The day after Scott disappeared, the phone was turned back on and pinged in cities all over south Florida. A week after her disappearance, her gold 2007 Nissan Altima with the Florida license plate number BCVX16 was found abandoned at Northwest 40th Street and 10th Avenue in the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, Florida, 24 miles from Fort Lauderdale.
Carl Monty Watts, who is Scott’s former boyfriend and the father of her son, is a person of interest in her disappearance. He has a criminal history for crimes including kidnapping and sex offenses, and witnesses reported he and Scott frequently argued and he was physically abusive towards her and had threatened her.
Authorities wanted to question him but were unable to locate him for some time after Scott’s disappearance. He did eventually resurface, when he turned himself in to law enforcement in July to face charges for violating the conditions of his supervised release on a federal weapons violation.
The violation came from his arrest in June, the same month Scott disappeared, when Watts was charged with battery and false imprisonment after a May 1 incident in which he tried to force a teenage girl into his car while she was waiting at a Fort Lauderdale bus stop. He has three prior arrests for kidnapping, as well as other offenses, and has served two terms in prison.
Scott pleaded guilty to battery in August. The judge called him a “predator” and sentenced him to eleven months in prison. He has since been released.
Watts made contradictory statements about Scott’s disappearance: at first he stated he’d seen her the afternoon she disappeared, something which was impossible because Scott had been running errands with her mother at that time. Then he said he hadn’t seen her at all.
Phone records indicate that Scott and Watts were together on the day of her disappearance. Phone records also show that on that day Watts was in Liberty City, the place where Scott’s car was later located.
Scott was working two jobs at the time of her disappearance, one for the U-Haul company and one as a caregiver for mentally disabled adults. She dreamed of a career as a police officer and had gone on a ride-along with the Miami Gardens Police Department a week before she vanished.
She has no history of leaving without warning and her loved ones don’t believe she would have abandoned her children. Foul play is suspected in her case, which remains unsolved.
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