
On that date, she attended a graduation party with her parents, Dianne and Steve. Though no one knows exactly what happened to Tiffany Valiante on July 12, 2015, a couple of facts are known.


Valiante Family This grainy still is the last known image of Tiffany Valiante, captured on a neighbor’s deer cam on the night that she died. According to WHYY, she was mulling pursuing a career in criminal justice, or even joining the Air Force.īut before she could start her freshman year, Tiffany Valiante died in a horrifying fashion. She had won a volleyball scholarship and had plans to attend Mercy College in New York State. Still, Valiante seemed to have bright hopes for her future. And Valiante expressed feelings of loneliness to her friends, who told investigators that she had self-harmed. In early 2015, she came out as gay and started dating women. According to the Daily Beast, she responded to her grandfather’s death by smoking pot, stealing money, and skipping class. The therapist ultimately found that she had a “stable” family relationship.īut if Tiffany Valiante’s family life was stable, her life outside the home was anything but. They both agreed to attend a counseling session, during which Valiante told their therapist that she was neither depressed nor suicidal. Then, Dianne admitted to punching her in the arm during an argument. As the Daily Beast reports, she and her mother, Dianne, had clashed to the point that child protective services visited their home three times in 2014.

In the days, weeks, and months leading up to Tiffany Valiante’s death on July 12, 2015, the 18-year-old had a number of personal struggles. Valiante Family Tiffany Valiante and her parents, Dianne and Steve, in an undated photo.
