Daily News | Netflix’s ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ episode deals with suspicious death of South Jersey teen Tiffany Valiante
On July 12, 2015, Mays Landing resident Tiffany Valiante, 18, was struck by an NJ Transit train about four miles from her home. Investigators quickly determined her death a suicide.Now, Valiante’s story is featured in, which premiered on the streaming platform Tuesday. The episode, “Mystery at Mile Marker 45,” details the events leading up to Tiffany’s death, and the search for answers that her parents, Dianne and Stephen Valiante, have been on since.
“New Jersey Transit put it out there that my daughter committed suicide,” Dianne says in the show. “There’s absolutely no way. No way at all. I want to know what happened to my daughter.”At the time of her death, Tiffany Valiante was preparing to graduate from Oakcrest High School, and had a scholarship to Mercy College in New York, where she planned to continue her volleyball career. Family, friends, and supporters say she was not suicidal or depressed.
But the Valiante family and their supporters believe that that version of events doesn’t add up. Tiffany, they say, was murdered, and her body was placed on the tracks to cover up the killing. “It may very well be that Tiffany was the victim of foul play,” the Valiante family’s attorney, Paul D’Amato, says in the show. A bulk of the episode is dedicated to inconsistencies in the investigation, including a lack of DNA testing on evidence found at the scene, which her family and supporters say was not properly secured, as well as no evidence that a rape kit was ever performed. Toxicology reports found no evidence of drugs or alcohol in Tiffany’s system..
In 2017, D’Amato filed a lawsuit against the state medical examiner’s office and other agencies to have the suicide ruling overturned. In March 2018, the state declined to change the manner of her death,“As the State Medical Examiner and a parent, please extend my condolences to the Valiante family for their tragic loss,” state medical examiner Andrew Falzon wrote in a letter to D’Amato,
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