Update On Old Case? (Florida Disappearance)

[Opal]

Does anyone have an update on the girl that disappeared from a Florida party store? I think the store was like 7/11, and she worked the graveyard shift. This is an old case from around 1989 (I think?). There was one eyewitness that was in the store and saw a Native American man wondering around (and I think he had on a t-shirt with some rock band name on it). Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

BTW, anyone notice that a lot of freaky stuff seems to happen in Florida? LOL!

[justins5256]

Originally posted by Opal
BTW, anyone notice that a lot of freaky stuff seems to happen in Florida? LOL!

Yeah, lots of freaky people live in Florida. Probably the reason freaky stuff happens. Freaky.

Justin

[Opal]

Oops... My Bad!

I just noticed there's already a thread discussing this case down the page.
I guess there's no update. That's so strange! You'd think they'd at least have some leads. Have they ever found her body?

[crystaldawn]

Yea, I know a few people from Florida and they are strange.

The woman's name was Debra Poe. They also profiled Donna Callahan also on that segment and her remains were found. I also read an article that said near where Donna Callahan was found they were searching for Pamela June Ray's remains (they didn't find anything). If you remember she was also on an UM segment where she locked her kids in a car to go talk to a man and then screams were heard and she was never seen again. It makes you wonder if the police think all these disappearances could be related. I do know there has been an arrest in the Donna Callahan case (it was profiled on CourtTV) but am unsure if they suspect him in the other disappearances or not.

[crystaldawn]

I was looking at Debra Poe's profile on the Charley Project website and was surprised to read a possible new development:

Authorities said that they had a suspect in Poe's disappearance in March 2002, but refused to publicly identify the individual. Investigators searched an area of land near the Chapel Hill Baptist Church in Orange County around the same time. The location is in 8800 block of Trevarehon Road near State Road 417. Authorities stated that a re-examination of the evidence in Poe's case led them to the suspect and to the area. It is not known if any material was uncovered during the process.

[unsolvedmysteriesfan]

Originally Posted by crystaldawn

I was looking at Debra Poe's profile on the Charley Project website and was surprised to read a possible new development:

Authorities said that they had a suspect in Poe's disappearance in March 2002, but refused to publicly identify the individual. Investigators searched an area of land near the Chapel Hill Baptist Church in Orange County around the same time. The location is in 8800 block of Trevarehon Road near State Road 417. Authorities stated that a re-examination of the evidence in Poe's case led them to the suspect and to the area. It is not known if any material was uncovered during the process.

SEARCH FOR LONG-MISSING CLERK YIELDS NO BODY IN GRASSY FIELD
THE ORLANDO SENTINEL - March 28, 2002

"More than a dozen disappointed search-and-rescue volunteers and Orange County sheriff's detectives ended a 12-hour search Wednesday in a field near State Road 417. They sought the body of a convenience-store clerk who disappeared more than a decade ago.

Deborah Poe , 26, was last seen working at a Circle K at Hall Road and Aloma Avenue in Goldenrod before she vanished between 3 and 4 a.m. Feb. 4, 1990. Investigators said the 100-pound clerk left without taking her purse, which was locked inside her new red Toyota in the parking lot.

Detective Tom McCann, who became involved in the case about 1994, said they had long considered the one-acre lot behind the Chapel Hill Baptist Church on Trevarthon Road a possible burial site.

McCann said the once heavily wooded lot was about five miles from the store and was near the home of a suspect in the case. Detectives had searched the area previously but wanted to try a crack team of "cadaver dogs" that recently found the body of a missing east Orange County man.

Sharon Scavuzzo of Pinellas County, founder of the K-9 unit, said five of the group's six dogs signaled they found human remains Wednesday morning in a small section of the grassy field. By nightfall, however, deputies using a backhoe and shovels failed to find a body.

At the time of her disappearance, a bloodhound picked up Poe's scent outside the convenience store. Orange County sheriff's detectives said the trail ended on the pavement, where authorities think she got into a car.

Sheriff's Sgt. John Allen, the lead homicide investigator, said based on the dogs' responses, it is likely human remains had been buried in the area at some point."