Little Miss Lake Panasoffkee — an enduring murder mystery after 50 years... Found slain in Florida in 1971, victim has never been identified nor her killer brought to justice.
Who was Miss Lake Panasoffkee?
The woman found dead in a Central Florida lake 50 years ago February 19TH, remains one of the most enduring unsolved murder mysteries of the 20th century. What is now an infamous cold case began by chance along a rural stretch of Interstate 75, a route that many Georgians take on the way to the sunny beaches of South Florida.
That’s where the body of a petite young woman was discovered on Feb. 19, 1971, under the Lake Panasoffkee Bridge in Sumter County, about an hour north of Tampa.
According to reports, two hitchhikers on their way to Mardi Gras were crossing the bridge when they looked down from the overpass and saw what they believed to be a
human figure in the shallow water.They waved down a passing state trooper, and an hour later investigators were on the scene. She had been strangled to death. A man’s belt was still coiled around her neck, but authorities didn’t believe it was a sexual crime.
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