No, TikTok didn’t solve this Arkansas missing-person case

About eight months ago, what seemed like a potential break in a missing-person case started to spread on social media. People were claiming that a TikTok video showed Cassie Compton, who went missing in 2014 when she was 15 years old. 

The police chief in Stuttgart, Ark., said in January that investigators had received dozens of calls about the video and were working on it. The Arkansas State Police were also involved, he said. 

But the next day, local news media reported that the woman in the video was not Compton. The FBI had interviewed the woman and confirmed her identity as someone else. 

Still, some old social media posts about supposed discovery are again getting attention online. One post that has been shared more than 51,000 times says "TikTok just found a girl that’s been missing for 6 years.   

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Compton has not been found. The anniversary of her disappearance is in a few days: She was last heard from on Sept. 14, 2014, the Stuttgart Daily Leader reported.

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