Nearby skeletal remains were discovered in a green nylon bag on May 29, 1982, in the 300 block of F Road north of Southern Boulevard. The remains were not identified until 2013 when the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office looked at dental records, finding they belonged to 17-year-old Tina Marie Beebe.
Beebe was last seen on Jan. 20, 1981, in Fort Myers, when she told her sister that a man had offered her a job as a model. The sheriff’s office believes Beebe was killed. With Beebe’s remains were a digital watch and earrings of U.S. pennies minted in 1979.
In another Loxahatchee case, a real estate agent inspecting land nearby on Dec. 19, 1982, found the decomposed remains of a female dispersed through thick bush in woods 140 yards north of Okeechobee Boulevard off F Road. She had been shot in the head and has not been identified.
Shari Lynne Ball, 20, of Boca Raton told relatives that she was leaving to pursue a modeling career. She called a friend two days later from a truck stop in Ashland, Virginia, then went missing on June 17, 1983.
A hunter found her decomposed body in Shelby, New York, on Oct. 29, 1983, but she wasn’t identified until 2014. A cold-case investigator said her slaying was consistent with “Wilder’s method of operations.”
About 35 miles away, a body had been discovered four years earlier in Caledonia, New York, on Nov. 10, 1979. The teen was found shortly after her death but wasn’t identified until 2015 as Tammy Jo Alexander, 16, who had vanished from Brooksville, Florida, in 1979.
She had been wearing an Auto Sports Products jacket, a brand Wilder had been fond of. The .38-caliber bullet found beneath her could be used in .357-caliber revolvers, like one that Wilder used to kill himself
Mary Opitz, 17, went missing in Fort Myers on Jan, 16, 1981. She was last seen leaving the Edison Mall on her way to the parking lot.
Another girl who resembled Opitz, 18-year-old Mary Elizabeth Hare, disappeared about a month later on Feb. 11, 1981, from the same parking lot. Hare's body was found in June 1981 in a remote, undeveloped area of Lehigh Acres.
The last time Tammy Lynn Leppert, 18, of Rockledge was seen was on July 6, 1983, while she argued with a male friend. The friend was never considered a suspect in her disappearance.
But Wilder at one point was. Her mother sued him before he died in Concord, New Hampshire, on April 13, 1984, but dropped the suit afterward. Linda Curtis claimed Leppert, once a contestant in more than 300 beauty pageants, had met on the set of the movie "Spring Break" in Fort Lauderdale.
Curtis said he traveled to Brevard County in an attempt to convince Leppert to let him photograph her. Police were not able to link her to Wilder.
Hulu's 'Beauty Queen Killer' is about Chris Wilder who went on a 1984 rampage of rape, torture, killings. He is suspected of more unsolved slayings in Florida.
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