We’re used to watching mysteries emerge in films, but it’s not as common for those films to become entangled in real-life riddles.

This is exactly what happened during the production of the 1983 movie Scarface, which starred Tammy Leppert, who was 18 at the time.

In March 1983, Leppert, who was also a beauty queen, began shooting the film in Miami, Florida.

But she vanished without a trace just a few weeks later.

Leppert’s disappearance inspired an Unsolved Mysteries episode, but forty years later, concerns about what happened remain unresolved.

According to Leppert’s relatives, the adolescent began acting oddly after attending a party and returned as a “different person.”

When challenged by her mother, Tammy confessed that she had “seen something awful that [she] was not supposed to see.” She declined to elaborate, claiming that if she did, ‘they’ would come for her.

Tammy became increasingly reclusive, and things reached a head on the fourth day of filming Scarface when family friend Wing Flannagan received a phone saying Tammy had a breakdown on set.

“They claimed it was a scene in which someone was supposed to be shot and artificial blood spurted out.” “And they said Tami started crying hysterically while watching the scene, and it got so bad that they had to take her to a trailer,” Wing told Unsolved Mysteries.

Tammy had “good days and bad days,” according to Wing, but on July 1, 1983, she began shattering windows and fighting Wing.

Tammy entered a mental health facility after the incident and remained there for 72 hours under supervision.

Tammy, on the other hand, planned to see her closest friend, Rick Adams, after being discharged and later told him she loved him and that she could be gone for a time.

The next day, she ran into another acquaintance, Keith Roberts, but the two started arguing. Tammy then instructed Roberts to drop her off in downtown Cocoa Beach, some five miles away.

At the moment, the actor was barefoot and without a pocketbook. She was last seen alive at that point.

Police have not identified a suspect in her abduction; however, some true crime aficionados have claimed that her disappearance may be linked to serial murderer Christopher Wilder.

Suzanne, Tammy’s sister, has continued to commemorate her sister over the years, previously stating that she would ‘never cease’ hunting for her for the rest of her life.