The Disappearance of Tiffany Doyle, November 1974

Tiffany Doyle, 26, was last seen on Friday, November 8, 1974 in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County, CA. She may use her married name, Felkey. It is believed that Tiffany may have been hitchhiking when she was last seen leaving Santa Cruz. She has an unspecified, non-life-threatening medical condition that requires regular medication, which she didn't take with her.

She was wearing a brown nylon jacket and a multicolored stocking cap, and was carrying a green nylon day pack or backpack. She has never been seen or heard from again. It is considered possible that she left of her own accord. Very few details are available in her case.

Tiffany Doyle. Photo from NamUs.

Tiffany is a white female with short brown hair and brown eyes. At the time of her disappearance, she was 26 years old, 5'6, and 100 lbs. She was born on December 29, 1947 in Omaha, Nebraska. If alive today, she would be 77 years old.

Tiffany was first reported missing by her younger sister Pamela sometime between November 8th and 12th, 1974, but the original missing persons report was at some point purged. She was reported missing again on January 6, 2014, nearly forty years after she was last seen. She is classified as Endangered Missing on the Doe Network and Charley Project.

Tiffany married a man named James Felkey in August 1967, when she was 19 and he was 24. According to records on Ancestry, James successfully filed for a divorce from Tiffany in September 1975, about ten months after her disappearance, in Garfield, Colorado. James, 32, then married Tiffany's younger sister Pamela, 21, in Santa Cruz in November 1974.

Tiffany and Pamela's father, Maurice, passed away at the age of 71 in Santa Clara County in December 1973. Their mother Margaret then passed at the age of 63 in April 1980.

Tiffany's dental x-rays are not available for comparison. She has nine rule-outs on NamUs, one of which is from CA in 2005, while the rest were found in VA. Her NamUs case, #MP26191, was created on September 17, 2014, and was last updated February 23, 2024. Her Charley Project profile was last updated on May 20, 2018.

Anyone with information regarding Tiffany's disappearance should contact the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office at (831) 471-1121 (according to NamUs) or (831) 454-2242 (according to CA DOJ). The agency case number is 14-00135. Furthermore, the SCCSO's Investigations Division can be reached out to at (831) 454-7630; its tip line is (831) 454-7631. The email for the agency's Missing Persons Coordinator is roger.galvin@santacruzcountyca.gov.

Furthermore, according to the CA DOJ's missing persons database, "If you think you know the whereabouts of any person, BEFORE TAKING ANY ACTION, please contact the law enforcement agency listed in the record, or the California Department of Justice at 1-800-222-FIND (24 hour nationwide toll-free Hotline) or (916) 210-3119, or email us [CA DOJ] at missing.persons@doj.ca.gov." According to the same site, individuals seeking to contact CA DOJ regarding a missing person can use the email form here.

Sources

NamUs 

CA DOJ 

WebSleuths 

Doe Network 

Charley Project 

Santa Cruz Sentinel 11/12/74  

Note: While this write-up was originally published on July 4, 2025, I regularly revisit cases, fix any typos or formatting errors, check for updates, hyperlink new posts, ensure that I have exhausted all sources, etc. When edits are extensive, I re-post the write-up entirely. This post was last updated on December 25, 2025.