Identified! FL - Sumter Co, 'Little Miss Panasoffkee', WhtFem 17-24, 470UFFL, Feb'71 Maureen L. Minor Rowan

[citizen_sleuth]

WATCH LIVE at 10 a.m.: Investigators discuss 1971 Florida cold case

According to investigators, the case stems all the way back to February 1971, when a woman’s body was discovered by a couple of hitchhikers under the Lake Panasoffkee Bridge.

www.clickorlando.com

The Sumter County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday is slated to hold a news conference to discuss one of the strangest cold cases in the state.

According to investigators, the case stems back to February 1971, when a woman’s body was discovered by a couple of hitchhikers under the Lake Panasoffkee Bridge on Interstate 75.

 

[victoriarobinson642]

Identified!
Born Maureen Lou Minor in 1949 in Maine. She had two young children. Last known alive in Tampa in 1970. Nickname Cookie.

 

[citizen_sleuth]

POI identified as Charles Emory Rowan Sr., Cookie's estranged husband

 

[killarney rose]

So was all the speculation about her being Greek false?

 

[victoriarobinson642]

So was all the speculation about her being Greek false?

Seems like it.

 

[victoriarobinson642]

-Tumultous marriage, had separated recently prior to her death
-Husband listed as a POI
-Ties to Gainesville + Tampa
-Emory Rowan (husband) has been deceased since 2015
-She had two very young children who were told that their mother had left and never came back.

 

[Spindlebrook]

Seems like it.

<surprised Pikachu face>

Seriously, I hope this buries once and for all the pseudoscience that isotope testing really is. Good riddance.

 

[The4TierBridge]

Very surprised to learn this was a fingerprint match ID. The last time her autopsy prints were run was in 2006 and the arrest prints were entered into the FDLE system in 2013.

 

[Sleuthster]

So glad she got her name back RIP

 

[Triss]

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Identified!
Born Maureen Lou Minor in 1949 in Maine. She had two young children. Last known alive in Tampa in 1970. Nickname Cookie.

SO HAPPY to see her identified!!!
Rest in peace, Cookie. My heart breaks for you and for your children.
Also wow, isotope analysis was waaaaaay off here.

 

[Kitsey]

When was the last time a long term doe was identified by fingerprints? Crazy

 

[killarney rose]

Informative article.

'Little Miss Lake Panasoffkee' identified; person of interest identified, officials say

A young woman killed more than 50 years ago and left in a lake beneath an overpass – known as "Little Miss Lake Panasoffkee" – has been identified, officials with the Sumter County Sheriff's Office said.

www.fox35orlando.com

 

[faithx]

Informative article.

'Little Miss Lake Panasoffkee' identified; person of interest identified, officials say

A young woman killed more than 50 years ago and left in a lake beneath an overpass – known as "Little Miss Lake Panasoffkee" – has been identified, officials with the Sumter County Sheriff's Office said.

www.fox35orlando.com

Photos of Maureen from the article:

 

[Lebowski]

<surprised Pikachu face>

Seriously, I hope this buries once and for all the pseudoscience that isotope testing really is. Good riddance.

or at least the error bars are bigger than people think, and it has to be used more carefully

 

[chaddylex]

I am so glad she has finally been identified, but so sad for her children growing up without their mother thinking that she just left and never came back.

 

[thelesis]

One thing I've learned over the last decade plus here at Websleuths is that the general public overestimates how many people are actually reported missing and how many victims serial killers have. My knee jerk reaction to every Doe from the pre-Internet era is that they were someone unreported that was murdered by a family member.

RIP Maureen.

 

[Susikatze]

Seems like it.

As expected. She was a local woman who was a victim of DV as many of us had expected. We should forget about isotope analysis for recent populations for good, they are dangerously misleading and can be filed under “junk science”. Actually also for historical populations I am not so certain anymore that theyre accurate since the same isotope signature happens in hundreds of areas allover the world

I am happy she has her name back - finally! It is one of my pet cases.

jmoo

 

[Susikatze]

One thing I've learned over the last decade plus here at Websleuths is that the general public overestimates how many people are actually reported missing and how many victims serial killers have. My knee jerk reaction to every Doe from the pre-Internet era is that they were someone unreported that was murdered by a family member.

RIP Maureen.

Yes, how many domestic killers got away with it just because everyone suspected some serial killer.
Some eventually get caught, others go on to live happy, peaceful lives like Wiso Sierra who killed Evelyn Colon and their baby and Muldavin, who after murdering two girlfriends/wives remarried undetected and spent the last 40 years of his life as a well loved family man and a loved community member and radio host.

jmoo

 

[Susikatze]

-Tumultous marriage, had separated recently prior to her death
-Husband listed as a POI
-Ties to Gainesville + Tampa
-Emory Rowan (husband) has been deceased since 2015
-She had two very young children who were told that their mother had left and never came back.

Like Patricia Otto and Patricia McGlone. Very young women married to men at least 10 years older, had young children. Separated from the husbands and were killed. Daddy said “the little floozy your mom is ran away with another guy and left you”. Noone ever questioned that.

 

[Lebowski]

I am so glad she has finally been identified, but so sad for her children growing up without their mother thinking that she just left and never came back.

and finding out she didn't leave them after all, and was murdered, but finding out at the same time that their late father is a person of interest