Sandra Prince - 2006

[LadyBlue]

After seven long years, friends and family of Sandra Prince hope they'll finally get some sort of closure today.

Police plan to make what they're calling a "major announcement" in the case. Prince lived in Temple Terrace before she disappeared in 2006.

Investigators found blood in the trunk of her car and security photos of a masked man using her bank card at an ATM.

They've even dug up the backyard of her home several times, looking for any clues, but there has never been an arrest.

The police have asked Prince's family and friends to be at the police station for the announcement.

"We'll be there," friend Richard Brown said. "I don't know what to expect at all, and I'm hoping that there's something there that just gives us some type of closure or some type of opportunity to look forward to something."

Prince was 59 when she disappeared. She worked at the Agency for Community Treatment Services, or ACT. A treatment center there has been named in her honor.
www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/20550472/2013/01/10/police-to-make-major-announcement-in-missing-woman-case

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FBI believes Sandra Prince was murdered in her home

Temple Terrace, Florida -- 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.

The court documents also reveal that after Prince was reported missing, authorities found her blood inside the trunk of her car, as well as on the garage floor and garage door of her home. They also found signs that someone tried to clean up Prince's blood in both her garage and bedroom. In addition there were several items missing from Prince's home after she disappeared, including her purse, a bathroom towel, a couple of her journals and a picture on Prince's bedroom night stand.

The picture was of Prince and Pippin, who officials have only called a "person of interest."

According to the court documents, officials also believe Prince's body is buried under a South Tampa home that Pippin was helping to construct when she disappeared.
www.wtsp.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=66235