The Great Santini

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The Great Santini

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The Great Santini
He Raped, Robbed, Murdered then Disappeared
By: Breck Porter
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he original Great Santini, was a
hard nosed, hard drinking, hell raisT
ing Marine, portrayed by Oscar winning
movie star Robert Duvall in a movie of the
same name. In the movie, Duvall, as
Marine Fighter Pilot “Bull” Meecham is
tough and arrogant and treats his wife and
kids as he would a bunch of Marine
recruits.
The only reason we call our Santini
“Great” is because since 1983 the League
City Police Department, the Galveston
County Sheriff’s
Office,
the
Hillsborough
County Sheriff’s
Office
in
Florida, The FBI
and the United
S t a t e s
Marshall’s
Offices in Texas
and
Florida,
League City Police
have all been
Mugshot of Santini
looking for him
and he is nowhere to be found.
D o n a l d
Michael Santini
made his mark
in Galveston
County May 2,
1983 when he
robbed a convenience store
in League City
at knife point.
On the day of Age Enhanced. What he
may look like
the robbery,
Irene Hughes
was working in Pam’s General Store at
358 Highway 517 in League City when a
man, later identified as Santini, came into
the store, sort of meandered around without buying anything, and left. Minutes
later he came back into the store, laid a
large knife on the counter and demanded
the money from the cash drawer, which
January 2006
Irene Hughes promptly handed over.
According to Hughes, Santini grabbed the
cash, fled into the
parking lot and
escaped in a car
that
she
described to a
tee, including the
license
plate
number. Irene
Hughes turned
out to be the kind
of witness that Murder Victim Cynthia
police
officers
Woods
always hope for
but seldom experience.
From the license plate number on the
get-away car League City police officers
Pat Bittner and David Ferrero were able to
track Santini to Rosharon, a community
continued on page 3 (Santini)
“Wrong-way Rigoberto”, killed four people then ran away
By Breck Porter,
hen Rigoberto Sanchez and his
W
buddy Gustavo Martinez had finished drinking on a February night in
took off through League City, headed east
on Texas 96.
Highway 96 runs east to west between
had reached a speed of about 90 miles
per hour and was approaching an overpass going in the wrong direction.
2002, they got into Sanchez’s ’92 white
Ford Explorer and off they went. No one
knows where they had been drinking or
where they were going.
At about the same time Hilario
Saavedra and three of his kinfolks piled
into his ’92 maroon Lincoln Town Car and
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The bodies of Hilario Saaverdra and Victor Correa, pinned inside the Lincoln
Town Car, are shielded from photographers by sheet.
Highway 3 and FM-270. It has two lanes
going west and two lands going east separated by a grassy median.
The problem on this particular Saturday
night is that Rigoberto Sanchez turned
west onto Highway 96 in the eastbound
lane. According to investigators and accident reconstruction specialists, Sanchez
Coming over the overpass also at an
estimated
90
miles per hour
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was Saavedra in the maroon Town Car
with his three passengers.
It was about eleven o’clock at night
when the two vehicles met head-on in the
center of the eastbound lane of Highway
96. Police reports indicate that neither
driver touched the brake pedals of their
vehicles. “It would be the same if you hit
a solid wall going 180 miles per hours,”
said Marty Adcock, the League City Police
Officer who investigated the crash.
Hilario Saavedra and his cousin, Victor
Correa, were pronounced dead on the
scene. The two backseat passengers,
Ismael and Julio Saavedra were flown by
Life Flight helicopter to Herman Hospital
in Houston where they were pronounced
dead on arrival.
A witness told the League City Police
Dispatcher that she saw the two vehicles
collide and that neither driver seemed to
have taken any evasive action to avoid the
other. Officer Dan Kreiger, who had
been and EMT prior to becoming a
police officer, and had been on
the scenes of many wrecks during
his career, said, “It was the
worst one I have ever seen.”
Blood samples were taken from
continued on page 8 (Wrong Way)
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continued from page 1 (Santini)
near Sugarland, Texas. When word reached
Santini that he was about to be arrested, he
surrendered to a Sugarland police officer
with whom he was acquainted. After his
arrest, officers were able to recover $219 of
the $270 that Santini took in the robbery
and the clothes that he wore which were
described perfectly by Hughes.
The investigation and arrest was a generally routine event for League City Police.
There was a good description, a quick
arrest, a confession, charges filed, case
closed. Police like these kind of cases.
After obtaining a written confession, Santini
was booked into the Galveston County Jail
where he was held until posting a $20,000
bond and being release. That was the last
time anyone in Galveston County ever saw
Donald Michael Santini.
The following November, a young, good
looking stranger from Texas made his
appearance in the towns and villages along
the Manatee County seashore in Florida
where he got a job as a maintenance worker in a popular condo and did odd jobs in
the Longboat Keys community.
This stranger from Texas used the name
Michael Charles Stevens and quickly introduced himself into the young, party crowd
which soon led to a romantic relationship
with a female employee of the condo.
Investigators say that although the man
known as Stevens maintained his own apartment, he spent much of his time at the
home of this new found girlfriend and her
minor son. Often he would drive the minor
son to the daycare center in the mornings or
pick him up in the evenings for the girlfriend.
During one of these trips to the daycare
center, Stevens became acquainted with
Cynthia Woods, an employee of the center.
Almost immediately he began asking her for
dates, however she showed little interest in
him. Cynthia, at the time, was involved in a
very contentious divorce with either her second or third husband and dating was not
something that stirred her interest. She was
a single mother of three and another man
was not high on her list of priorities. Stevens
continued to ask her out when he had occa-
Detective on the case, Chris Fox with the
Hillsborought County Sheriff’s Office in
Tampa, Florida.
sion to go to the daycare. Investigators say
that Stevens tried to convince Cynthia to
date him by pretending to be a relative of
someone she knew. Cynthia told her son,
13- year old Tommy, that this man who
came to the daycare was bugging her to go
out with him but that she had declined his
invitations.
The divorce battle between Cynthia Woods
and her husband had become bitter. There
were allegations that her son Tommy from a
previous marriage may have been abused
by the husband and this got the Division of
Family Services involved.
After continued insistence from Mike
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Everyone who knew Cynthia became
alarmed. Authorities became alarmed
because they were desperately trying to capture a serial killer who had been dumping the
bodies of his female victims in adjoining
Hillsborough County.
Four days later Cynthia Wood’s body was
found by two young girls riding bicycles, floating in a ditch in Hillsborough County, not far
from where police had discovered the bodies
of two other women murdered weeks before.
Immediately newspapers, radio and television
began reporting the discovery of another
female body in the same area where previous
corpses had been found. The public was left
to assume that the serial killer had claimed
another victim.
Investigators could not immediately identify the body. It had been floating in water in
the hot temperatures of summertime in
Florida. There was no identification on the
body, nothing to help figure out who she was.
A couple of days later Cynthia Woods
estranged husband called the Sheriff’s
Office. “My wife and I are going through a
divorce and she’s missing,” he told a
detective. “I’m wondering if that is her
that they found in Hillsborough County,”
he said. That sent Hillsborough County
investigators heading south to Bradenton
to talk with the husband. During their conversation the husband provided some
information that suggested to detectives
that the recently discovered body was in
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to get it over with and maybe he would quit
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On Tuesday evening, June 5th, 1984,
Charles Michael Stevens arrived at Cynthia
Woods home to pick her up for their date. He
came inside, spoke briefly to Tommy, and the
couple left. There was no mention of where
they were going or what they planned to do on
the so-called date. Tommy watched his mother
and the stranger drive away in Stevens van.
Cynthia’s other two children were staying with
their father, so that left Tommy at home alone.
When they drove away, it was the last time
Tommy saw his mother alive.
The next morning, Cynthia’s sister learned
that Tommy had been home alone all night
and that his mother had not returned from the
date. This was very much out of character for
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in this area we are doing the very most
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alone was over $8,000 (the city of Texas
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about $6,000, new windows, $10,000,
the list goes on and on. We are probably about $30,000 away from finishing
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enough at that point to positively identify
her. Her physical state was such that the
detectives chose not to show him photographs of the dead woman. The end result
of their conversation with the husband was
that they now had a pretty good idea that
the body was Cynthia Woods. Now all they
had to do was to verify it.
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or where the body is discovered. “Here we
work’em where we find’em,” a detective
told us. Investigators from Hillsborough
County, headquartered in Tampa, spent
many hours and days over in Manatee
County conducting the investigation.
As the investigation progressed, detectives learned that the man calling himself
Michael Paul Stevens was really not related to anyone in town as he had claimed
when trying to hook up with Cynthia
Woods. In fact, he wasn’t kin to anyone in
Florida, “In talking with some of those
people it turned out that this guy Mike had
been in Florida since about November and
had been hanging around the beach community and working around there doing
odd jobs here and there,” a detective said.
“He worked around Longboat Key and
Bradenton but mostly he was a mystery
man,” he said. Detectives could find no
one who ever knew that Michael Paul
Stevens was not the mystery mans real
name. The only thing they learned is that
he had told people that he was from Texas
and that he had been in the Army at one
time. Supposedly he had been prosecuted
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born in the hospital in Manatee County, her
fingerprint was taken as a routine hospital
procedure. That fingerprint was matched
with one taken from the body in the
morgue and it confirmed the identity of
Cynthia Woods.
Now the investigation had moved south
to Manatee County because that was
where everyone connected to Cynthia
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Gene Leroy Cunningham was managing an RV
Park in Crystal Beach and according to investigators
he befriended three minor girls who he would drive
around the park on his golf cart. During these rides
he allegedly fondled the girls. Authorities say that
Cunningham has a history of this sort of crime in
other states, however, he is not registered as a sex
offender in Texas. Anyone having information that
may assist authorities in locating and arresting his
offender is asked to contact the Galveston County Sheriff’s Office, Warrant
Division 409-766-2309 or 409-766-2322 or your nearest law enforcement
agency.
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However, they would confirm that he had
been booted out of the Army with a dishonorable discharge.
“As we continued to talk with the girlfriend and others, we begin to get evidence that Stevens had been contracted
or hired, to discredit Cynthia Woods’s reputation,” an investigator told us. “The obvi-
ous suspect in that scenario was the husband, but the investigation did not validate
that,” he said. “We have information,
whether it’s creditable or not, that someone, not necessarily the husband, saw a
benefit in having Ms. Woods’s reputation
compromised,” said the detective. “If we
believe our information, we have no
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Sanchez at Herman Hospital and sent to
the Texas Department of Public Safety
Laboratory in Austin The results indicated
a blood-alcohol level of .10 which indicates legal intoxication in Texas where
.08 is the indicator. Toxicity texts performed on the body of the other driver,
Hilario Saavedra by the Galveston County
Medical Examiner resulted in a .08 bloodalcohol level, meaning that he was also
legally intoxicated.
During that time the Galveston County
District Attorney’s Office would not
accept charges against him without the
lab results.
Following his extended stay and lengthy
treatment in Herman Hospital, Rigoberto
Sanchez was released from the hospital
and then vanished. Since there was no
charges against him, hospital officials did
not notify police that he was being
released.
Investigator’s believe that Sanchez is
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The scene was a major disaster area.
Police, firefighters and rescue personnel
worked feverishly to cut the lifeless victims from the vehicles. Three ambulances were dispatched as were three Life
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in both directions on Highway 96
between Highway 3 and FM-270. And to
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somewhere in Mexico. Relatives in
Dickinson say they have not seen or
heard from him since his release from the
hospital.
A Grand Jury indictment, issued by the
122nd District Court Grand Jury in
Galveston, charges Rigoberto Sanchez
with four counts of Intoxicated
Manslaughter, the term used when someone gets drunk and murders people with
a car or truck.
Persons with information which may
assist in the arrest of Rigoberto Sanchez
are asked to contact the Galveston
County Sheriff’s Office, the League City
Police Department or the nearest law
enforcement agency.
The Galveston County Police News
extends it’s thanks and appreciation to
the following officers and agencies for
their assistance in providing information
for this story: Sgt. Dan Kreiger, Captain
Douglas Wologo, and Detective Morton
Grant and Detective Marty Adcock, of the
League City, Texas Police Department
and Sgt. John Fernandez, Galveston
County Sheriff’s Office.
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responding to an emergency call, was hit by another vehicle at an intersection. Franco
was enroute to assist another officer driving east on Church Street. As she entered the
intersection at 39th Street she was T-Boned by another vehicle in the driver side door.
The officer was ejected from her vehicle and suffered serious injuries.
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Police Officer Thomas Tell Hawkins
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doubts he was contracted to injure her
reputation, in fact we validated that he
actually attempted to by planting drugs on
her. That is our information. The motive
actually circles around this contract, this
hiring of Mike Stevens to damage or compromise her reputation,” continued the
detective. “I won’t go into the specifics of
how he was supposed to discredit her.
The story of him planting drugs may or
may not be true but we do have it on good
information that Stevens was hired to
injure her reputation.”
“That explains many things. That
explains why this man, Mike Stevens, who
already has a girlfriend, is going out on a
date with another woman. And of course
the big mystery is we don’t know what his
intentions were but we had the information that he was hired to make the date
and take her out,” he said.
“We know there was a failed attempt at
the drug planting because there had been
a failed attempt once before. We don’t
know whether he attempted to do something similar again or whether he took it to
a new level by killing her or whether he
was actually hired to kill her. That part we
don’t’ know. We just know that the reason
for his coming in contact with her in the
first place was to damage her reputation.
So they wind up going out on a date and
she never came back,” related the detective.
As detectives continued to talk with the
girlfriend, she finally told them that on the
night of the date Stevens returned to her
house and that while the two of them were
Crime Scene where the body was found
having sex he revealed to her that he had
killed Cynthia and dumped her body
where the other victims had been found
hoping to throw police off his trail. After
revealing that information to her, she said
Stevens immediately left town.
With this information, detectives
obtained a search warrant for the man’s
apartment. There they found an application for a bank account and fingerprints.
The application had a persons name in
Texas as a reference. The fingerprints
were sent to the FBI where they matched
the fingerprints of Donald Michael Santini,
the man who months earlier had robbed a
convenience store in League City, Texas.
Florida authorities obtained fingerprints
and mug shot photographs from League
City Police and that made the connection.
It was June 16th before he was finally
identified as Santini, eleven days after the
murder of Cynthia Woods. With the new
identification and evidence, first degree
murder charges were filed in Hillsborough
County, Florida.
Santini has been on the run for over 21years. Once he is arrested, it is the hope
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that they will have enough evidence to
charge the person who allegedly hired
Santini. Since fleeing Florida Santini is
believed to have traveled to Kentucky,
Texas, Nevada and California. He may
visit Pasadena from time to time where he
has relatives.
Santini has used alias of Donald
Chapman, John Michael Trimble, Steve
Buice, Charles Michael Stevens and
Joseph Brewster.
Originally blond,
Santini’s hair was graying in 1984 - it may
now be white. He was known to dye his
hair brown or blond and he has a mole or
a birthmark below his Adam’s apple.
Donald Michael Santini has worked as a
laborer, electrician, landscaper and
painter. He plays the guitar and writes
songs, likes to imitate Elvis Presley and is
proficient in karate. He was reportedly
convicted of rape while in the Army in
Frankfort, Germany, idolizes the Green
Berets, likes being around horses, and
drinks Jack Daniels whiskey.
The Sheriff’s Office in Tampa,
Hillsborough County, Florida and the
League City, Texas Police Department
would like to hear from anyone who has
any information about Donald Michael
Santini. In addition to the murder warrant in Florida, the Galveston County,
Texas, Sheriff’s Office holds a warrant
for the Aggravated Robbery in League
City and for Failure to Appear for trail in
the 122nd State District Court. The
F.B.I. has a warrant for his arrest for
Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution for
Murder. The two men, who posted a
$20,000 bail bond for Santini, forfeited
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you are a native Galvestonian, otherwise
known as a BOI, you probably knew Red.
For many years he wore badge number
307 for the Galveston Police Department.
about when Red first became a Galveston
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later joined the Motorcycle Patrol until a
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Earl “Red” Russell in this undated photo (L) as a Galveston Police Motorcycle
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In May, 2004, we visited with Red and
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Red was a friend to most people he met.
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AGUILAR, PEDRO LIONEL
WM 08/16/1983 5-8 175 Bro
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LKA: 102 Fort Velasco, Surfside
Beach, Tx
AGGRAVATED SEXUAL ASSAULT
OF CHILD
Victim: Female Age 11
Rick Level: HIGH
BRANDON, BILLY RAY
WM 02/03/1955 5-7 140
Grn Bro
LKA: 4502 Boulevard, Apt 13.
Bacliff, Tx
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WM 07/09/1942 5-11 190
Bro Bln
LKA: 12214 Vista Real, Santa
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INDECENCY WITH A CHILD BY
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Risk Level Not Available
DAY, JOHN FRANKLIN
WM 05/17/1970 6-0 195 Grn
Bro
LKA: 729 Davis Rd. League City,
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WM 01/28/1956 5-11 210 Blu Bro
LKA: 1702 Oak Meadow Dr., Kemah, Tx
Risk Level: Not Available
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WM 11/13/1942 508 200 Bro Gry
LKA: 3273 County Road 531, Alvin, Tx
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Risk Level: Low
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LKA: 520 9th St. No. 2, San Leon, Tx
AGGRAVATED SEXUAL ASSLT OF A
CHILD
Risk Level: Moderate
WELLS, CHRISTOPHER CARL
WM 02/19/1970 602 145 Grn Bln
LKA: 914 Fort Velasco Dr., Surfside
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Murphy agreed to drive back with an aim to
"jack" or rob the stranded driver. After
returning to the stranded man, Murphy and
his friends helped jump-start the stalled
vehicle. The driver, Jason Erie, provided a
small reward for their help and got into his
car. Murphy then pulled a .25 caliber semiautomatic pistol and demanded Erie's wallet. Initially Erie protested and refused to
hand over his property. As he finally began
to comply, Murphy fired a single shot from
close range into the victim's forehead and
took his wallet. The wallet was later recovered along a nearby road where Murphy
told investigators it had been discarded.
Erie was alive when rescue workers
arrived, but died a short time later.
Murphy and his friends fled through
Arkansas, to Tennessee, and finally ended
up in Arlington, Texas, where they were
apprehended by police. Murphy's girlfriend, Christina Davis, who was with him
throughout the event, testified against him.
Julius Jerome Murphy was born in
Bowie County, Texas and had only an
eighth grade education. He was 19-years
old when he committed murder. If he dies
on the schedule date of January 19, 2006
he will be 27-years old and had been on
death row for 8-years.
Jamie Elizalde, Jr., Born December
12, 1971, in Harris County, Texas
Jaime Elizalde, Jr. was paroled from
prison only eight months before he was
involved in the murder of two men outside
a Houston nightclub. He had served
almost four years of a ten year sentence
for possession of cocaine and car theft.
Dudley and three other men drove from
Tuscaloosa, Alabama to Houston to buy
cocaine from Rachel and Jose Tovar.
Instead of buying drugs, the four men tied
the Tovars and four other people in their
home with strips of sheet and demanded
money. All six victims were then shot in
the head.
Rachel Tovar and one other victim survived. The dead included Jose Tovar;
Rachel's son, Farnak Farias, and daughter-in-law, Jessica Quinones; and a neighbor, Audrey Brown.å
Marion Butler Dudley was 20 years old
when he committed murder. If he is executed as scheduled he will be 34-years old
and will have spent 14-years on death row.
On November 1, 1994, Elizalde was at a
nightclub with his father when the two men
got into a confrontation with Juan
Guajardo and Marcos Vasquez. Four days
later, the father and son returned to the
bar and sat on opposite sides of the room.
Jaime Elizalde, Sr. gestured to the two
men to follow him outside of the El Lugar
bar, where Elizalde Jr. was waiting for
them. He pulled a gun and shot both men
to death. A witness testified that from the
bar he saw Guajardo as he was shot.
Elizalde was arrested a few months later in
a drug bust.
While in prison Elizalde had been a
leader of the Mexican Mafia, a dangerous
prison gang.
Prosecutor Terrance
Windham told the jury that Elizalde had
stabbed someone in prison and assaulted
guards. After convicting Elizalde for capital murder, in less than one hour the jury
decided that Elizalde, Jr. would be a threat
to society and sent him to death row for
the two slayings. After the judge read the
sentence, the defendant smiled and patted
one of his attorneys on the back.
Elizalde's father is thought to be hiding in
Mexico.
Jamie Elizalde, Jr., was 23-years old
when he committed murder. If he is executed as scheduled he will be 35-years old
and will have been on death row over eight
years.
that bond and paid Galveston County
the money in June of 1984, 13-months
after the League City robbery and just
days following the murder in Florida.
The Galveston County Police News
would like to express it’s appreciation
for the assistance given on this story by
the following individuals and departments:
Sgt. Dan Kreiger, League City, Texas
Police Department; Sgt. Bill Collins,
Galveston County, Texas, Sheriff’s
Office and member of the Gulf Coast
Major Offenders Task Force; Deputy
Alfredo Perez, U.S. Marshall’s Service,
Houston, Texas; Deputy Brenda
Ferebee, U.S. Marshall’s Service,
Tampa, Florida; and Detective Chris
Fox, Homicide Cold Case Investigator,
Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office,
Tampa, Florida.
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When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a
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more than he bargained for. Police arrived at the
scene to find an ill man curled up next to a motor
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A woman was reporting her car as stolen, and
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