FL FL - Thomas Stump, 41, Summerland Key, 24 July 1995

[gaia227]

Bumping!

There are two threads going about Tom and Diana. Christine, Diana's daughter, just posted on the other thread and I wanted to link it here too.

FL-Diana Lynn Harris & Thomas Stump - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community

 

[noZme]

I stumbled upon this case from an old newspaper article. Tom's mother died in December. As someone posted elsewhere, she now has the answers to her son's disappearance. It seems in life, she was devoted to the search ...bless her heart.

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=70566698&blogId=522721742

 

[hoppyfrog]

Will copy posts here momentarily.

 

[JeannieC]

This is so strange and I hope and pray both cases will be solved.

Just wanted to add the link to the CUE Center Page where both Thomas and Diana are listed.

http://www.ncmissingpersons.org/thomas-stump/

http://www.ncmissingpersons.org/diana-harris/

 

[ginestra]

I truly am thinking this is her: FL FL- Glade Co. Jane Doe Mar 1981 - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community
Considering the lost files on Diana, I don't think it could be too farfetched that the unidentified was found in aug (8), vs March (3). Trucadero connection, painted nails, similar physical characteristics. The more I post, the I am getting nervous, as sounds like some powerful people in different places could of been involved.

 

[ginestra]

oh yes and cause of death on both is blunt trauma to the head

 

[ginestra]

http://icaremissingpersonscoldcases...emale-found-in-1981-in-Broward-County-Florida
this unidentifed's found in august is very similar to statistics found on the one in march 9, 1991. Alligator alley, broward county, and Moore haven I believe are all in the same area~~

 

[Rayemonde]

2011:

My name is Christine Hill. I am the daughter of missing person, Diana Lynn Harris...

is not only my belief, but also the belief of others that my Mom may be a victim of serial killers. Other families believe that their missing loved ones went missing around the same group of people. I am afraid that this may still be going on today. Missing/murdered persons other then my Mom that may have went missing around this same group are, Beverli Elaine Darnell, Gerald Douglas Oxby, and Thomas Stephen Stump - Tom Stump. I believe that a man named Henry Sanchez was murdered in 1979, and an attempted murder of a man named Brian Vaughn, now deceased....

I believe Tom Stump knew about the disappearance of my Mom and I think his wife who knew my Mom was afraid that Tom would talk....he had asked her for a divorce...but then he went missing. Police in Monroe County Florida were investigating both of their cases at the same time. My Mom's case was reinvestigated in 1995 when Tom went missing. Their went missing 14 years apart and Tom's 1995 wife Bernadette Becker (Ripin, Stump) and her 1981 husband Mark Ripin knew and lived with my Mom when she went missing in 1981. Bernadette aka Bernie lived with her husband Tom when he went missing. Her ex-husband Mark Ripin helped in the search for Tom....he was told by Bernie that she'd pay him big time to sit in the woods and wait. I am told that Bernie also attempted to hire the shark hunter Manny Puig to search for Tom.

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-552824

 

[CastlesBurning]

Bumping for Tom...it's now been 25 years.

 

[spartanx]

In this case I think Thomas did commit suicide... but it would really be because of the affair his wife was having with that "outstanding announcer" who in my opinion has neither judgment nor shame... although the one who had the commitment was Bernie's wife... maybe he had already assumed it or maybe he had a big economic problem... I feel sorry for his children since they have no responsibility here... the family says that Thomas would never walk away from his children but sometimes desperation leads you to make any decision in order to alleviate your problem or pain... even I have felt that way... obviously there is always the possibility that a serial killer acted violently...
whatever the case
rest in peace