In a chilling parallel to the high-profile disappearance of Gabby Petito nearly two years ago, a Tennessee couple, Nikki Alcatraz and Tyler Stratton, have gone missing this month while on a road trip from Nashville to Orange County, California, according to Radar Online.

The couple was last heard from on May 8, said Toni Alcatraz, Nikki's sister. On that day, Nikki texted her sister stating they were in Arizona, about to undertake the final stretch of their journey. Toni expressed her alarm at the sudden break in communication to KNRN-TV, saying, "I talk to her almost every day, so I am scared something happened to them."

Adding to the concerns is an unsettling police report from Torrance County, New Mexico dated May 4. It detailed an altercation between the couple, where a witness alleged seeing Stratton hit Alcatraz. Responding officers found Stratton bleeding from his nose and mouth, and he claimed Alcatraz had initiated the attack. Although neither party wanted to press charges, they were taken to separate locations for the night.

Recalling a subsequent phone call with her sister, Toni described, "Her eye was already turning black and you could tell she was beat up pretty bad."

A family friend, who was slated to accompany Nikki to California, reportedly departed without her when she decided to return for her boyfriend. Now, Toni fears the worst, stating, "I am scared something happened to them, whether they got in another fight or if they crashed her Jeep somewhere...I don’t think she is dead out there somewhere, but it’s all a possibility at this point."

This case bears uncanny resemblances to the tragedy of Gabby Petito who disappeared in August 2021 during a cross-country trip with her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie.

Petito's body was eventually discovered on September 19 in Wyoming's Bridger–Teton National Forest, the victim of homicide by strangulation. A month later, Laundrie's remains were found in Myakkahatchee Park, North Port, Florida, the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

As these painful echoes of the past unfold, all wait anxiously for any news regarding the fate of Alcatraz and Stratton.