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August 4, 2020 By: Staff Report LAND O’ LAKES, Fla. – On March 11, 1984, the body of Christopher Griffin, 20-years-old at the time of his death, was found inside a convenience store located at SR 54 and US 41 in Land O’ Lakes Florida.…
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July 27, 2020 By: Drew Kesse and Brian Burns ORLANDO, Fla. – The Free Press has been posting cold case files in the Tampa Bay area over the last couple of months, and trying to help keep these missing people and people that were lost…
Read More Cold Case: Help Bring Missing Jennifer Kesse Home
July 26, 2020 By: Staff Report BROOKSVILLE, Fla. – Dominique Lewis, age 19, and a medical student at the Ultimate Medical Academy in Clearwater Florida, has never been served justice. On December 11, 2007, Dominique’s body was discovered in a wooded area off Brooksville Rock…
Read More Cold Case: 19- Year-Old Dominique Lewis Murdered
BAYONET POINT, Fla. – Gail Ann Russell was last seen inside her family’s trailer in the vicinity of the 7100 block of Oakley Avenue in Bayonet Point, Florida on September 4, 1995, where she and her live-in boyfriend, Larry Podolski, went to bed at midnight.…
Read More Cold Case: Gail Ann Russell, Tapping on The Window
St. Petersburg Fla. – Laura Marie Nimbach was born on August 26, 1986, she grew up in Michigan after graduating high school she enrolled to attend Wayne State University to follow her dreams of becoming a nurse, as any young college students trying to work…
Read More Cold Case: Laura Marie Nimbach, Missing
July 16, 2020 By: Staff Report PORT RICHEY, Fla. – Kathleen Wandahsega was last seen in October 2002 walking away from a residence in Port Richey Florida. A $500 financial aid check which came to her, was never cashed or used. Wandahsega had been known…
Read More Cold Case: Kathleen Marie Wandahsega, Never Cashed Her Check
July 10, 2020 By: Staff Report TAMPA, Fla. – On June 15, 2013, the victim, Brando Julian Mosquera, 4/21/1985, was found deceased in a hotel room at the Days Inn located at 2901 Busch Boulevard East in Tampa. The case is still unsolved and detectives are…
Read More Cold Case: Brando Julian Mosquera, Found In Hotel Room
June 29 , 2020 By: Staff Report ZEPHYRHILLS Fla. – Jeffrey Daniel Osborne is a U.S. Navy Veteran who disappeared from his home at 35317 Carson Drive in Zephyrhills, Florida after last being seen on August 17. 1995. Osborne was discharged from the U.S. Navy…
Read More Cold Case: Jeffrey Daniel Osborne – Home From The Navy
PASCO COUNTY, Fla. – On November 26, 2013, at approximately 10:50 pm, twenty-three-year-old Quantrell Keller (pictured below), was shot and killed at his residence located at 4904 Rosedale Lane, Holiday Florida. The suspect was described as a short, stocky Hispanic male between 20 to 25…
Read More Florida Cold Case: Quantrell Keller Shot and Killed in 2013