FL FL - Sandra Prince, 59, Temple Terrace, Dec 2005
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Bumping for Sandra.
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No arrest yet? Blood in the trunk of her car...he got everything that she had which to me is motive enough for murder.
I wonder if LE has taken any dogs out to the property that they bought together? They should be able to get a search warrent but maybe they wouldn't even need one because it was her property too.
Her poor old mama....in her 90's and having to deal with something like this. She is the one that has put up the reward. I hope she could afford to do that and didn't put up her home or something. Poor little thing.
I wonder if LE has taken any dogs out to the property that they bought together? They should be able to get a search warrent but maybe they wouldn't even need one because it was her property too.
Her poor old mama....in her 90's and having to deal with something like this. She is the one that has put up the reward. I hope she could afford to do that and didn't put up her home or something. Poor little thing.
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I can't believe nothing has surfaced fromthis case.
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wELL, i AM back looking at these photos again. This case drives me crazy. The one still they have still #7.
http://www.templeterrace.com/police/case06_00030.htm
The writting on the shirt, I thought said Shark or something, but working on it looks/something like Jay B Starkey Wilderness which is a park abt 32 miles from Temple Terrace. I am also thinking because of the raised collar that he has a vest on. One of those thermal things that the collar sticks up.
http://www.templeterrace.com/police/case06_00030.htm
The writting on the shirt, I thought said Shark or something, but working on it looks/something like Jay B Starkey Wilderness which is a park abt 32 miles from Temple Terrace. I am also thinking because of the raised collar that he has a vest on. One of those thermal things that the collar sticks up.
Beyond Belief, you mentioned the raised collar. You might want to look at the final frames of the black and white clip, where the collar is shown from behind as the perp drives away. If you adjust brightness and contrast, you may find that there is a logo on the underside of the collar. The underside would, of course, be the top side of a sunvisor worn the right side up. Please let us know what you find.
Missing woman's mom dies
Sandra Prince's mother, 92, still believed a detective could solve her daughter's case.
St. Petersburg Times
Published March 17, 2007
The 92-year-old mother lived 673 miles away. But Dovie Hamby never gave up on the search for her daughter, Tampa social worker Sandra Prince.
About every two months since Prince's disappearance, Hamby travelled from Boone, N.C., to Temple Terrace. Each time, she insisted on speaking privately with a detective, not even allowing the niece who drove her down to see her anxiety.
Hamby was a true Southern belle, formal and reserved, hiding her vulnerability with a keen wit, sharp mind and impeccable clothing and jewelry.
But Hamby died last week after she fell in her garage. Boone police found her March 9, lying in the cold with broken bones. She was still alive, but with a very low body temperature.
Hamby was hospitalized, and died Sunday, never knowing what has become of her only child.
* * *
Hamby grew concerned in late December 2005 when she didn't get her weekly Wednesday telephone call from her daughter.
On Jan. 3, police found the back door of Prince's Temple Terrace home unlocked, her purse missing and blood inside the trunk of her car. Her cell phone, almost always on her hip, lay on the kitchen counter.
Police released their strongest clue the following month: video footage of a man with his face deliberately hidden, withdrawing money from Prince's accounts at local ATMs after her disappearance.
They named her boyfriend of five years, Earl C. Pippin, a "person of interest" in September, and said he was the sole beneficiary of her estate.
Police have released little more in the past half year. But Hamby had the utmost faith that Temple Terrace police Detective Michael Pridemore would get her the answers.
* * *
Pridemore was home with his family Sunday when he got the call that Hamby had died. It stung.
"I just felt it was my responsibility to bring her closure," Pridemore said.
John Marrocco, who worked with Prince for 30 years, said he was shocked when he heard Prince's mother had died. Though she was in her 90s, Hamby looked anything but weak.
"The last time I'd seen her, it looked like she'd last forever," he said.
Together, Marrocco and Prince founded the Agency for Community Treatment Services, which assisted people with drug and alcohol addiction.
Marrocco recalled Hamby's yearly visits to Florida, lunching with mother and daughter at the Colonnade Restaurant in South Tampa.
In the 1970s, Hamby used to tease her daughter about the torn jeans and tattered Florida State University baseball cap Prince wore to work at the Salvation Army. He said Prince once gave in to her mother's nagging and sent the jeans to Hamby for repairs. Her mother threw them away.
"They used to fight like daughter and mother," Marrocco said. "But I know she loved her very much."
* * *
Helpless after her daughter's disappearance, the mother did what she could. She offered $80,000 to anyone who could find Prince.
And she paid someone to maintain her daughter's newly-remodeled home and gardens.
"She said she wanted to keep everything exactly how Sandra left it so it would be nice when she returned," said Prince's friend Susan Horton.
Hamby will be laid to rest on her daughter's birthday. But her mission will live on.
The handyman said he will continue to toil at the residence, blowing leaves from the roof, straightening the yard, maintaining the pool.
And the detective who once worked to give a grieving mother answers said Hamby's death has only strengthened his resolve to solve this case.
Said Pridemore: "I don't know if it could get any stronger."
Sandra Prince's mother, 92, still believed a detective could solve her daughter's case.
St. Petersburg Times
Published March 17, 2007
The 92-year-old mother lived 673 miles away. But Dovie Hamby never gave up on the search for her daughter, Tampa social worker Sandra Prince.
About every two months since Prince's disappearance, Hamby travelled from Boone, N.C., to Temple Terrace. Each time, she insisted on speaking privately with a detective, not even allowing the niece who drove her down to see her anxiety.
Hamby was a true Southern belle, formal and reserved, hiding her vulnerability with a keen wit, sharp mind and impeccable clothing and jewelry.
But Hamby died last week after she fell in her garage. Boone police found her March 9, lying in the cold with broken bones. She was still alive, but with a very low body temperature.
Hamby was hospitalized, and died Sunday, never knowing what has become of her only child.
* * *
Hamby grew concerned in late December 2005 when she didn't get her weekly Wednesday telephone call from her daughter.
On Jan. 3, police found the back door of Prince's Temple Terrace home unlocked, her purse missing and blood inside the trunk of her car. Her cell phone, almost always on her hip, lay on the kitchen counter.
Police released their strongest clue the following month: video footage of a man with his face deliberately hidden, withdrawing money from Prince's accounts at local ATMs after her disappearance.
They named her boyfriend of five years, Earl C. Pippin, a "person of interest" in September, and said he was the sole beneficiary of her estate.
Police have released little more in the past half year. But Hamby had the utmost faith that Temple Terrace police Detective Michael Pridemore would get her the answers.
* * *
Pridemore was home with his family Sunday when he got the call that Hamby had died. It stung.
"I just felt it was my responsibility to bring her closure," Pridemore said.
John Marrocco, who worked with Prince for 30 years, said he was shocked when he heard Prince's mother had died. Though she was in her 90s, Hamby looked anything but weak.
"The last time I'd seen her, it looked like she'd last forever," he said.
Together, Marrocco and Prince founded the Agency for Community Treatment Services, which assisted people with drug and alcohol addiction.
Marrocco recalled Hamby's yearly visits to Florida, lunching with mother and daughter at the Colonnade Restaurant in South Tampa.
In the 1970s, Hamby used to tease her daughter about the torn jeans and tattered Florida State University baseball cap Prince wore to work at the Salvation Army. He said Prince once gave in to her mother's nagging and sent the jeans to Hamby for repairs. Her mother threw them away.
"They used to fight like daughter and mother," Marrocco said. "But I know she loved her very much."
* * *
Helpless after her daughter's disappearance, the mother did what she could. She offered $80,000 to anyone who could find Prince.
And she paid someone to maintain her daughter's newly-remodeled home and gardens.
"She said she wanted to keep everything exactly how Sandra left it so it would be nice when she returned," said Prince's friend Susan Horton.
Hamby will be laid to rest on her daughter's birthday. But her mission will live on.
The handyman said he will continue to toil at the residence, blowing leaves from the roof, straightening the yard, maintaining the pool.
And the detective who once worked to give a grieving mother answers said Hamby's death has only strengthened his resolve to solve this case.
Said Pridemore: "I don't know if it could get any stronger."
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May the sweet lady meet her child in heaven. At least now she will know the truth.
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That poor mama laying on the garage floor with broken bones, freezing, and unable to get any help. I wonder how the police happened to find her. It is heartbreaking when a mother dies before they know what happened to their daughter. Sandra was her only child.
If everything of Sandra's was left to that boyfriend that probably killed her how come he didn't get her home? I wonder if he is a suspect and if so would he even be able to get anything that she left to him?
I hope her killer does gets caught and sent to prison. I'll bet that detective doubles his efforts to find him.
If everything of Sandra's was left to that boyfriend that probably killed her how come he didn't get her home? I wonder if he is a suspect and if so would he even be able to get anything that she left to him?
I hope her killer does gets caught and sent to prison. I'll bet that detective doubles his efforts to find him.
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http://www.tbo.com/news/metro/MGBS14C917F.html
Doing their due diligence to solve cases is customary among those who have chosen police detective work as a profession.
Temple Terrace Detectives Michael Pridemore and Darrin Berberat thought they were doing just that in their search for missing Temple Terrace woman Sandra Prince, who has not been seen by neighbors since Dec. 30, 2005.
In the course of nearly two years, the detectives also developed a close association with Prince's mother, Dovie Moore Hamby of Boone, N.C., as they've tried to gather information to solve the mystery of her only child's whereabouts.
It was Pridemore's goal to find Prince before her mother's death. Instead, he attended Hamby's funeral after she died March 11 at the age of 92.
Little did either detective know how much she appreciated their attentiveness to the case until last week, when they learned Hamby amended her will to make the Temple Terrace Police Department the beneficiary of property valued at more than $500,000. Her decision was based on her belief that her daughter would be found dead.
"It was totally unexpected and the first time I've seen anything like this in my 38 years in law enforcement," Police Chief Tony Velong said. "I'm proud of the officers' work ethic and the relationship they developed with her mother. That's pretty typical of all the people in our department."
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Doing their due diligence to solve cases is customary among those who have chosen police detective work as a profession.
Temple Terrace Detectives Michael Pridemore and Darrin Berberat thought they were doing just that in their search for missing Temple Terrace woman Sandra Prince, who has not been seen by neighbors since Dec. 30, 2005.
In the course of nearly two years, the detectives also developed a close association with Prince's mother, Dovie Moore Hamby of Boone, N.C., as they've tried to gather information to solve the mystery of her only child's whereabouts.
It was Pridemore's goal to find Prince before her mother's death. Instead, he attended Hamby's funeral after she died March 11 at the age of 92.
Little did either detective know how much she appreciated their attentiveness to the case until last week, when they learned Hamby amended her will to make the Temple Terrace Police Department the beneficiary of property valued at more than $500,000. Her decision was based on her belief that her daughter would be found dead.
"It was totally unexpected and the first time I've seen anything like this in my 38 years in law enforcement," Police Chief Tony Velong said. "I'm proud of the officers' work ethic and the relationship they developed with her mother. That's pretty typical of all the people in our department."
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Wednesday, 17 Oct 2007
FOX 13 News has learned Temple Terrace Police are serving a search warrant in connection with a missing woman.
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Wednesday, 17 Oct 2007
FOX 13 News has learned Temple Terrace Police are serving a search warrant in connection with a missing woman.
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Oct 20, 2007
A forensics team seeking clues to a woman's disappearance will continue digging in the yard of a South Tampa home this morning.
Temple Terrace police spokesman Mike Dunn said he is not certain how long the excavation will continue.
"We're taking it day by day at this point," Dunn said.
Investigators began excavating the backyard of a house at 3908 W. Vasconia St. on Wednesday after Temple Terrace police obtained a search warrant in connection with the disappearance of Sandra Hamby Prince.
Prince, of Temple Terrace, was 59 when she was reported missing Jan. 3, 2006.
Oct 20, 2007
A forensics team seeking clues to a woman's disappearance will continue digging in the yard of a South Tampa home this morning.
Temple Terrace police spokesman Mike Dunn said he is not certain how long the excavation will continue.
"We're taking it day by day at this point," Dunn said.
Investigators began excavating the backyard of a house at 3908 W. Vasconia St. on Wednesday after Temple Terrace police obtained a search warrant in connection with the disappearance of Sandra Hamby Prince.
Prince, of Temple Terrace, was 59 when she was reported missing Jan. 3, 2006.
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http://www.sptimes.com/2007/10/23/Hillsborough/Dig_ends_in_search_fo.shtml
October 23, 2007
After five days of burrowing under a South Tampa home for evidence of a missing woman, Temple Terrace police ended their search Monday.
Investigators pulled about 295 pounds of soil from beneath 3908 W Vasconia St. since Oct. 17, when they secured a search warrant to collect evidence there in connection with the disappearance of Sandra Hamby Prince.
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Archeologists from the University of South Florida will test the soil collected in 59 tubes, each 5 feet in length, over at least the next 30 days, Temple Terrace police spokesman Mike Dunn said. Each tube weighs roughly 5 pounds.
Detectives did not locate any evidence obvious to the naked eye, Dunn said. But they aren't ruling anything out until the soil tests are completed and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement processes evidence as well.
"I don't think anyone really knew what to expect," Dunn said. "The hope was that we would find something. And we don't know yet whether we have or not."
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When police first responded to her house almost two years ago, they found her blood in the trunk of her car, her cell phone on the counter and her door unlocked.
Nine months into their investigation, investigators named Tampa contractor Earl Pippin III a "person of interest" in Prince's disappearance. Pippin and Prince dated for five years while he was married, police said, and Prince named Pippin the sole beneficiary to her estate.
Though police haven't said why they are searching that location, records show Pippin built the house. An inspector signed off on a newly laid concrete slab there days after Prince vanished.
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Police said the dig was the result of a culmination of 142 tips. There is an $80,000 reward for information leading to Prince's whereabouts. Anyone with information about Prince is asked to call Detective Michael Pridemore at 813 989-7110.
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October 23, 2007
After five days of burrowing under a South Tampa home for evidence of a missing woman, Temple Terrace police ended their search Monday.
Investigators pulled about 295 pounds of soil from beneath 3908 W Vasconia St. since Oct. 17, when they secured a search warrant to collect evidence there in connection with the disappearance of Sandra Hamby Prince.
and
Archeologists from the University of South Florida will test the soil collected in 59 tubes, each 5 feet in length, over at least the next 30 days, Temple Terrace police spokesman Mike Dunn said. Each tube weighs roughly 5 pounds.
Detectives did not locate any evidence obvious to the naked eye, Dunn said. But they aren't ruling anything out until the soil tests are completed and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement processes evidence as well.
"I don't think anyone really knew what to expect," Dunn said. "The hope was that we would find something. And we don't know yet whether we have or not."
and
When police first responded to her house almost two years ago, they found her blood in the trunk of her car, her cell phone on the counter and her door unlocked.
Nine months into their investigation, investigators named Tampa contractor Earl Pippin III a "person of interest" in Prince's disappearance. Pippin and Prince dated for five years while he was married, police said, and Prince named Pippin the sole beneficiary to her estate.
Though police haven't said why they are searching that location, records show Pippin built the house. An inspector signed off on a newly laid concrete slab there days after Prince vanished.
and
Police said the dig was the result of a culmination of 142 tips. There is an $80,000 reward for information leading to Prince's whereabouts. Anyone with information about Prince is asked to call Detective Michael Pridemore at 813 989-7110.
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http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=66235
Documents released Thursday about the disappearance of 61-year-old Sandra Prince are painting a more deceitful picture about the man at the center of the investigation, her former boyfriend Earl Pippin III.
Court records show Pippin lied to investigators and evidence at Prince's Temple Terrace home paint the picture of a possible violent murder scene.
A couple of months after Prince's disappearance, Temple Terrace police brought in the FBI. Federal officials reviewed all of the information in the case and they concluded Prince was murdered inside her home sometime after December 28th 2005. The FBI also concluded Prince was likely murdered by someone close to her and that the murder was not premeditated.
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http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=66235
Documents released Thursday about the disappearance of 61-year-old Sandra Prince are painting a more deceitful picture about the man at the center of the investigation, her former boyfriend Earl Pippin III.
Court records show Pippin lied to investigators and evidence at Prince's Temple Terrace home paint the picture of a possible violent murder scene.
A couple of months after Prince's disappearance, Temple Terrace police brought in the FBI. Federal officials reviewed all of the information in the case and they concluded Prince was murdered inside her home sometime after December 28th 2005. The FBI also concluded Prince was likely murdered by someone close to her and that the murder was not premeditated.
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http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=66235
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http://www.sptimes.com/2007/10/26/Hillsborough/Painting_may_hold_clu.shtml
The $6,000 painting still hangs in Sandra Prince's now-vacant house. In the portrait, the missing social worker stands in her garden with a man and his dog.
Prince once told the artist she was fond of the man.
"Sadly," she said, according to a court document, "he is married with children and nothing would ever come of it."
Temple Terrace police wonder if the painting made another man jealous enough to bury her under a house.
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Investigators hypothesize that Pippin may have experienced a "narcissistic injury" -- a wounding of his self-esteem -- over the painting, according to a search warrant that allowed investigators to dig beneath a South Tampa house last week.
The man pictured in the painting was not Pippin, but Prince's gardener, David Jarrett, 47, the records say.
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also contains info from the search warrant and a timeline of the case
The $6,000 painting still hangs in Sandra Prince's now-vacant house. In the portrait, the missing social worker stands in her garden with a man and his dog.
Prince once told the artist she was fond of the man.
"Sadly," she said, according to a court document, "he is married with children and nothing would ever come of it."
Temple Terrace police wonder if the painting made another man jealous enough to bury her under a house.
and
Investigators hypothesize that Pippin may have experienced a "narcissistic injury" -- a wounding of his self-esteem -- over the painting, according to a search warrant that allowed investigators to dig beneath a South Tampa house last week.
The man pictured in the painting was not Pippin, but Prince's gardener, David Jarrett, 47, the records say.
much, much more at link
also contains info from the search warrant and a timeline of the case
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