View Full Version : Deborah Poe case solved?


nicoge21
06-24-2026, 06:25 PM
If you search for the Deborah Poe case on Facebook (woman who went missing while working at a convenience store at night in 1990) there was a post from a few months ago of a former law enforcement officer who claims that one of the main detectives on the case (the one featured in the segment?) told him that 2 brothers on death row confessed to killing Deborah Poe (in 2008??) According to the detective, they were known for abducting convenience store clerks in Florida and one of the brothers confessed while on death row for similar crimes.

It is strange that the media never reported on this, or maybe because they were on death row it just got swept aside and was never reported on.

BuffaloBill
06-25-2026, 12:33 AM
I read the post, that being said I would be very skeptical in believing a random post no matter how legit it sounds. There is absolutely nothing on the internet or any reports that the Megadeath case was solved. Any police or law department will always put out a statement, especially when an old cold case has been solved.

TheCars1986
07-02-2026, 09:59 AM
Can you link the post? I can't find it anywhere.

Dude111
07-02-2026, 10:20 AM
Yea it would be nice to be able to give her the respect she deserves...

I still wanna know who the Mystery Clerk was!!

BuffaloBill
07-02-2026, 11:45 AM
That post appears to have been deleted. It was there I know what I read. It appears to have been replaced with Deborah Poe still missing 2026. Otherwise I can’t even find it anywhere. Very suspicious.

Dude111
07-02-2026, 05:35 PM
Maybe the person who did it saw it and got scared and deleted it??

unsolved243
07-03-2026, 01:53 PM
Here is the link to the Facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/groups/grewupinorlando/posts/26260663643558172/

I attached a screenshot of the comment from Pete Kusek. If I had to guess, I'm assuming he is talking about Mark Riebe and William Alex Wells, who were convicted of Donna Callahan's murder (she was briefly mentioned in Deborah's segment).

BuffaloBill
07-03-2026, 02:41 PM
Very strange, he is talking about the Donna Callahan case without mentioning her name. Yet touched upon Deborah Poe’s name from another case without clarifying himself. That’s a head scratcher. Also he commented on if they ever found Poe’s body, and he said he didn’t want to go there, saying “That’s an aspect better left alone”. Very weird posts.

StackTime
07-05-2026, 01:24 AM
It was her frequent early AM visitor friend. Come on. The signs are there, and didn't a bloodhound track from the store to his residence?

TheCars1986
07-06-2026, 06:43 AM
It was her frequent early AM visitor friend. Come on. The signs are there, and didn't a bloodhound track from the store to his residence?

The scent was tracked from the store to the side of the store, and then behind it into an apartment parking lot that jutted up against the back of the store.

StackTime
07-07-2026, 11:13 PM
The scent was tracked from the store to the side of the store, and then behind it into an apartment parking lot that jutted up against the back of the store.

Yes, that's what I recall too. Didn't her friend who came by at night live in that complex or area?

TheCars1986
07-08-2026, 07:22 AM
Yes, that's what I recall too. Didn't her friend who came by at night live in that complex or area?

Her boyfriend did not live in that apartment complex. He was there with her until about 12:30 a.m. on her shift when he left to go home. There were customers and witnesses who were in the store after he left, and the last customer that came to the store who saw Deborah was a manager at a local KFC, and he stopped in at 3:00 a.m. to buy a scratch off ticket. He says the door was locked and Deborah had to let him in, and when he asked why the door was locked she jokingly said something to the effect of, "there's a lot of weirdos out there tonight". Her boyfriend and another customer arrived at roughly the same time around 4:00 a.m. and found the store empty, and that's when the boyfriend called the police to report her missing.

What I find interesting is that the KFC manager says that as he was leaving the store, he told Deborah to follow him and lock the door behind him, but she didn't and he found that odd. Which makes me wonder that if the manager interrupted the abductor in the process of abducting Deborah, which would explain why the door was locked and why she made that weirdos comment.

StackTime
07-10-2026, 06:04 PM
Her boyfriend did not live in that apartment complex. He was there with her until about 12:30 a.m. on her shift when he left to go home. There were customers and witnesses who were in the store after he left, and the last customer that came to the store who saw Deborah was a manager at a local KFC, and he stopped in at 3:00 a.m. to buy a scratch off ticket. He says the door was locked and Deborah had to let him in, and when he asked why the door was locked she jokingly said something to the effect of, "there's a lot of weirdos out there tonight". Her boyfriend and another customer arrived at roughly the same time around 4:00 a.m. and found the store empty, and that's when the boyfriend called the police to report her missing.

What I find interesting is that the KFC manager says that as he was leaving the store, he told Deborah to follow him and lock the door behind him, but she didn't and he found that odd. Which makes me wonder that if the manager interrupted the abductor in the process of abducting Deborah, which would explain why the door was locked and why she made that weirdos comment.

Oh, I didn't mean the boyfriend, but the (male) friend who visited her that night (perhaps looking at real estate ads). Then later happens to go back only to find her missing? I could have sworn that scent-tracking to the apartments looped in either that guy, or someone else she knew.

TheCars1986
07-13-2026, 08:45 AM
Oh, I didn't mean the boyfriend, but the (male) friend who visited her that night (perhaps looking at real estate ads). Then later happens to go back only to find her missing? I could have sworn that scent-tracking to the apartments looped in either that guy, or someone else she knew.

He's never referred to as her boyfriend in the segment, but the friend with the glasses in the segment is called Scott by the actress playing Deborah, and Scott was her boyfriend at the time. He and another customer were at the store around 4:00 a.m. and they were the ones who found Deborah missing and called the police.