Susan Jordan 57, (Found Safe) Msg 05/07/09, Tampa FL

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May 12, 2009

Tampa mother now missing for four days

TAMPA -- A 57-year-old mother who went missing from her Tampa home last week remains missing this morning, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

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Susan Jordan hasn't been heard from since she spoke with her son Thursday, he told deputies after reporting her missing the next day. Jordan, who lives alone and does not drive, left her home without her purse or cell phone, deputies said.
Nothing appears to be missing from her home at 5305 Reflections Club Drive (http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&q=5305+Reflections+Club+Dr,+Tampa,+FL+33634&ie=UTF8&split=0&gl=us&ei=iVEJSvfGEaKxtgezjqDgCw&ll=27.998589,-82.560732&spn=0.009303,0.012059&z=16&iwloc=A). Deputies reported no signs of forced entry.
Jordan is a 5-foot-7 white woman who weighs 150 pounds, deputies said. She has brown hair and blue eyes. The Sheriff's Office can be reached at (813) 247-8200.

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Deputies searching for missing Tampa woman

TBO.com
Published: May 12, 2009


TAMPA - Hillsborough County deputies (http://www2.tbo.com/topic/k/county-deputies/) are searching for a 57-year-old Tampa woman (http://www2.tbo.com/topic/k/tampa-woman/) after her son reported her missing.
Susan Jordan (http://www2.tbo.com/topic/k/susan-jordan/) last talked to her son Thursday, deputies say. The son, who lives a few blocks away, reported her missing Friday when he couldn't reach her.
There are no signs of forced entry at Jordan's home on Reflections (http://www2.tbo.com/topic/k/reflections/) Club Drive, and deputies say it appears Jordan left without her purse (http://www2.tbo.com/topic/k/purse/) or cell phone. Jordan lives alone and does not drive, her son told deputies.
The sheriff's office expects to release a photo of Jordan later today.
Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff's office at (813) 248-8200 or Crime Stoppers (http://www2.tbo.com/topic/k/crime-stoppers/) at 1-800-873-8477.

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Deputies search for missing Tampa woman

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TAMPA, FL -- The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is looking for 57-year-old Susan Jordan of Reflections Club Drive who was last heard from on May 7, 2009.

Deputies say Jordan was last heard from on Thursday when she spoke to her son who lives just a few blocks away from her. She was reported missing on Friday after he was unable to reach her.

Investigators say that Jordan who lives alone and does not drive, left her home without taking her purse or cell phone. They also added that there are no signs of forced entry and nothing appears to be missing from the home.

Susan Jordan is described as a white female, 5'7" tall weighs about 150 pounds, has brown hair and blue eyes.

Anyone with information about this case is asked to call the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office at (813) 247-8200 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-873-8477.

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I pray Susan is found safe soon.

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Missing Tampa woman left purse and cell phone behind

By Robbyn Mitchell, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Wednesday, May 13, 2009

TAMPA — The last time anyone heard from Susan Jordan was an afternoon phone conversation with her sister six days ago.

The 57-year-old divorcee is described by her family as a homebody who doesn't drive because of her glaucoma, and preferred to spend her time doing crosswords, knitting and enjoying visits from her 5-year-old grandson. "She would catch the 30 Route bus when she needed something like groceries or to go to CVS, but other than that she spent a lot of time at home," said her daughter, Stephanie Randall of Tampa.

So when her son David Jordan couldn't reach her on Friday, he was alarmed enough to call Hills*borough County sheriff's deputies and report her missing.

They found her door unlocked and Jordan gone, son-in-law Gregory Randall said.

Equally worrisome, investigators say Jordan's purse and cell phone were still in her home at Bridgeview Apartments — two personal belongings one might assume are important for someone who depends upon bus service to get basic necessities.

Stephanie Randall and her brother have been to their mother's unit at 5305 Reflections Club Drive, in several times since she disappeared, and everything seems to be in its place. "Nothing was missing that we could tell," she said.

The Chicago native, a former office worker, moved to Florida in 2001 to be closer to her children and grandson, Randall said.

She moved into Bridgeview, a quiet complex enclosed by trees, with an entrance sandwiched between a Jiffy Lube and an All Tune and Lube on Hillsborough Avenue near Hanley Road, more than two years ago.

Jordan's next-door neighbor, Millie Pereyra, said she often used to come out of her apartment and find her very polite acquaintance sitting on the steps adjacent to her front door smoking. "We would talk about things and sometimes she would go for walks with me," said the 86-year-old widow.

The last time she saw Jordan she was smoking and talking on the phone outside her door more than a week ago.

The only visitors Pereyra ever saw were Jordan's son, David, and her 5-year-old grandson.

"She used to take him to the pool," Pereyra said while pointing at the gate a stone's throw away from her front door.

Anyone with any information regarding the whereabouts of Susan Jordan is asked to call the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office at 247-8200 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-873-8477.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/article1000529.ece

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Grandmother missing for six days, search continues

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Tampa, Florida - A Bay area grandmother has been missing for six days. Susan Jordan, 57, spoke to her sister in Tennessee on the phone on Thursday evening. It was the last time anyone has heard from the mother of two.

Her son, David Jordan, said he went by his mother's apartment Friday evening after she wasn't answering his calls.

"I tried the door, it was unlocked which was very unusual for her as well. There was no one in the apartment, her cell phone was there, her purse was there," he explained.

So far, police say there are no signs of foul play and no reports of anyone who has seen her in the past few days.

"If I saw her sitting there we always waved and that's about it. Are you sad to hear she's missing. Oh," said Milly, who lives next door to Susan.

"We've searched the woods, we've walked around to the various places we know she frequents," said Susan's son.

Her family says Jordan had glaucoma and did not go out at night or drive a car. In fact, she used a bus to get around.

"The fact that she's not there, something is wrong. She wouldn't have missed Mother's Day. She just wouldn't not be home. There's just no where for her to go," said David.

She often stayed close to the home, taking her grandson to the pond behind her apartment to feed the ducks. Police have searched the shallow water and the surrounding area, but they haven't found anything yet.

Susan's daughter Stephanie Randall said, "The not knowing is the hardest part, just any resolution at this point would be better than this going on like this."

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Tampa mother missing almost a week

Thursday, May 14, 2009

TAMPA (Bay News 9) -- Susan Jordan, 57, of Tampa, was last seen six days ago.

Jordan's daughter, Stephanie Randall, is set to give birth to her first child in a few weeks. She says there's no way her mother would purposely miss that.

"No ideas at this point where she might be or what could have happened," she said. "None."

Randall and her brother, David Jordan, say the last time anyone spoke to their mother was about a week ago.

When they didn't hear from her for several days, he went to her apartment to check it out.

"I knocked on the door; no answer," David Jordan said. "Knock again; still no answer. I tried the door and it was closed, but it was unlocked. Went inside and saw her cell phone there, her purse sitting there."

"A lot of times if we have individuals that go missing they take their personal items with them if they don't want to be found," said Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Debbie Carter. "But in this case, the fact she left all that behind is concerning."

Crime investigators are scouring the apartment looking for clues.

They've also searched the area by air and by foot but so far nothing has turned up. Jordan's children say she didn't have any personal or financial problems that they know of and they're simply at a loss.

"It's just surreal," said David Jordan. "You know you read about this kind of thing, you see it on TV shows, you read about it in books, but you never expect anything like this to happen,"

Susan Jordan has brown hair and brown eyes. She's 5-feet 7-inches tall and weighs about 150 pounds.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office or Crimestoppers at 1-800-873-8477.

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My thoughts and Prayers go out to Susan and her Son ,
I also Pray they find her soon...

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Video gives glimpse into missing woman's movements

Friday, May 15, 2009
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Susan Jordan was seen in surveillance video at a grocery store in Tampa on May 7.
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY (Bay News 9) -- There is still no trace of a Hillsborough County mother missing for a week.
However, officials have released video tape images of the last time 57-year-old Susan Jordan was seen in public.
Those images were taken seven days ago as Jordan shopped at a U-Save grocery store and walked by the pool at Bridgeview Apartments, where she lived.
Both locations are on Hillsborough Avenue in the Town 'N Country area of Tampa.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, which is investigating, said Jordan's purse and cell phone were still inside of her apartment. Jordan is 5-foot-7 and weighs 150 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.
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Jordan's daughter, Stephanie Randall, is set to give birth to her first child in a few weeks. She says there's no way her mother would purposely miss that.
"No ideas at this point where she might be or what could have happened," she said. "None."
Sheriff's officials said they are concerned that Jordan's personal items were still at her home.
Jordan's family says she has glaucoma and doesn't drive. In fact, she doesn't even own a car. She takes the bus everywhere and they said she doesn't venture very far from home.
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Susan Jordan has not been seen in a week.

Investigators said the search will continue at the apartment complex and in the surrounding area.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office or Crimestoppers at 1-800-873-8477.
"It's just surreal,' said son David Jordan. "You know you read about this kind of thing, you see it on TV shows, you read about it in books but you never expect anything like this to happen."

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Deputies, family continue search for Tampa woman missing two weeks

By Robbyn Mitchell, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Saturday, May 23, 2009

TAMPA — Detectives fanned out in the parking lot of U-Save on Hillsborough Avenue, putting fliers into the hands of business owners, shoppers and passersby, hoping to find a new lead in the case of missing 57-year-old Susan Jordan.

Two weeks ago Friday, her son, David, reported her missing after no one had seen or heard from his mom since 4:30 p.m. May 7.

Jordan left behind her cell phone, purse and a tidy apartment, authorities said.

The dark-haired glaucoma sufferer was last spotted by security cameras walking past the pool at her apartment complex, Bridgeview, after a quick trip to the U-Save at 7733 W. Hillsborough Ave.

There are no images of Jordan leaving the apartment complex again, even though she does not have a car and would have had to walk past the pool camera to get off the property.

Still, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's office has not said they suspect foul play.

"We are working diligently on this case and anyone who has any leads would be helpful," said Debbie Carter, a sheriff's spokeswoman.

Last week, law enforcement helicopters took to the sky, divers dragged a pond and deputies walked the wooded area that surrounds Bridgeview at 5307 Reflections Club Drive, all to no avail.

Carter said it's important to circulate more recent photos of Jordan than those that were released when she was first reported missing.

"The first picture was from some years ago and she looks really different now with shorter, darker hair," she explained.

After dozens of interviews conducted, authorities don't know any more about this case than when they began.

But Carter said detectives haven't given up hope of finding Susan Jordan alive and well.

"A while back we had an older man go missing and found him four states away about a month later and he was fine," she said. "So it varies from case to case."

Robbyn Mitchell can be reached at rmitchell@sptimes.com or (813) 226 3373.


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I hope Susan's case comes to a positive end and she is found safe.

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Missing Town 'N Country woman believed to have gone by bus to Tallahassee, and could using an assumed name

By Robbyn Mitchell, Times Staff writer
In Print: Saturday, May 30, 2009

TAMPA — Divers searched the pond near her Town 'N Country apartment. Search parties with dogs combed the nearby woods. Detectives passed out fliers at a shopping center where she was last seen.

And now, three weeks later, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office says it appears that 57-year-old Susan Jordan bought a bus ticket under a fake name, took the Greyhound bus north, and was last seen heading to Tallahassee alone.

Jordan, whose son reported her missing after no one had seen or heard from her after May 7, has been calling herself "Debbie Kelly," and took a roundabout bus ride north through Orlando, Jacksonville and Lake City, to Tallahassee, a sheriff's news release said.

Before, authorities believed her last sightings were shopping at a U-Save grocery store on Hills*borough avenue near Hanley Road and passing the pool at her Bridgeview apartment complex at 5305 Reflections Club Drive on the afternoon of May 7.

But deputies found recently that she took a HART bus to the Greyhound station on May 4 and bought a nonrefundable ticket to Tallahassee, deputies say.

Then, "on May 7, 2009, at 7:50 p.m. Jordan again took a HART bus to the downtown Greyhound bus terminal."

At first, she appeared to be wearing a dark-colored, long wig covered with a blue scarf, the report says. Then in Orlando, she was observed going into the restroom wearing the wig and scarf, and emerging wearing a pink hat and no scarf or wig.

Her trail ends in Tallahassee on May 8. She has not been found.

When she was first reported missing, deputies made sure she was not wanted in any state, said J.D. Callaway, a sheriff's spokesman.

They also accessed her telephone records, but Callaway said he cannot disclose if she made any calls to Tallahassee before her disappearance.

If she's found, deputies hope to return her to her family. But if Jordan dropped off the grid on purpose, as it seems, authorities can't force her to come back, Callaway said.

"Obviously she's an adult, and we can't do that," he explained. "We can locate her and find out if she is safe."

Family members told deputies it is completely out of character for Jordan, who does not have any friends or relatives in Tallahassee, to leave without notifying anyone or taking her cell phone or purse.

Callaway said he heard a story about her being seen with a man before her disappearance, but detectives have been unable to confirm that.

"She appeared to be traveling alone," he said.

For now, the search has been passed on to North Florida agencies. "Detectives believe that Susan Jordan is in the Tallahassee area and notified authorities there," deputies said.


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Deputies release new video of missing Town 'N Country woman spotted in Tallahassee

By Elisabeth Parker, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Tuesday, June 2, 2009

TAMPA — Authorities reviewing surveillance video from a Tallahassee greyhound bus station say they caught a glimpse of Susan Jordan, the 57-year-old from Tampa who has been missing for more than three weeks.

Jordan bought a bus ticket under the name of Debbie Kelly, and took a Greyhound bus north, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

Her family last heard from her May 7. Deputies say she left her cell phone and purse in her North Tampa unit where she lived alone. They believe Jordan, who doesn't drive because of glaucoma, took a HART bus at 7:50 p.m. that day to the downtown Greyhound terminal.

In the Tallahassee station, she was seen wearing black pants and a white shirt, and carrying a black duffel bag and a green bag, deputies said. Jordan has brown hair and blue eyes, is 5-foot-7 and weighs 150 pounds.

Hillsborough deputies have notified authorities in Tallahassee, spokeswoman Debbie Carter said. Their search continues.

"We need to have a face to face meeting with her to confirm her welfare," Carter said. "We need to know she left on her own free will."

Go to links.tampabay.com to see new surveillance video of Jordan that has been released by the sheriff's office.

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Susan Jordan spotted traveling north

TAMPA - Surveillance video released two weeks ago shows Susan Jordan around the time of her bizarre disappearance.

New developments in the case involve more surveillance video, and puzzling evidence that the 57-year-old mother and grandmother may not want to be found.

"We have some video evidence of her coming into Orlando to a bus station to Jacksonville and then leaving on a bus for Tallahassee," says J.D. Callaway of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

The Sheriff's Office says Jordan left on a bus from the Tampa Greyhound station on May 7th, in disguise. The video, which has not been released, shows Jordan at various bus stations wearing a wig at times.

Detectives believe she is in Tallahassee, using the name Debby Kelly.

"Her state of mind, we don't know what that is," Callaway says. "Obvisouly, there's some issues going on. Our main objective is to find her and find her safe and return her to her family."

Since Jordan vanished on May 7th, her children insisted she would never just walk away. Her next-door neighbor also believes that, and is somewhat relieved.

"Who knows if somebody forced her to do strange things she wouldn't do generally," says Jordan's neighbor Millie. "At least I know she's alive, whether she's wearing something strange or whatever, but that she's alive and that's the main thing."

Jordan's appearance is a stunning development. On Friday, detectives passed out fliers to businesses along Hillsborough Avenue, pleading to the public to come forward with information to help bring the missing woman back to her family.

But now it seems, for unknown reasons, that Susan Jordan doesn't want to be home.

"That is strange because I know she loved her children very much, her grandson," neighbor Millie says.

Detectives tracked her trip using bus terminal video footage from Tampa to Tallahassee. Along nearly every stop, Jordan tried to disguise her appearance wearing a dark wig at one time, and later, a pink hat and blue scarf.

Jordan was last seen boarding a bus in Jacksonville headed for Tallahassee via Lake City on May 8th. Detectives say that Jordan's family doesn't believe the woman has any friends or family in Tallahassee area.

http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/local/hillsborough/Susan_Jordan_spotted_052909

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Missing a month, Town 'N Country woman calls her family from Savannah

By Robbyn Mitchell, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Wednesday, June 24, 2009

TAMPA — More than a month after a Town 'N Country woman disappeared from her apartment — leaving everything behind, including her wallet and purse — authorities say she contacted her family Saturday to tell them she is alive and in Savannah, Ga.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office announced Tuesday that it has closed its missing person's case on 57-year-old Susan Jordan.

Jordan was reported missing by her son, David, on May 8 after he went to her home in the Bridgeview Apartments at 5305 Reflection Club Drive and found the door unlocked and all of her things where she left them, according to the Sheriff's Office.

He told investigators his mother was a homebody who didn't drive, work or have lots of friends.

She also had been diagnosed with glaucoma, said Stephanie Randall, her daughter.

Neighbors said that her only visitors were her children and 5-year-old grandson, whom she would take to the pool a stone's throw from her front door.

Her sudden disappearance baffled everyone.

Deputies searched nearby woods and a pond behind her apartment and put fliers in local businesses in hopes of finding the divorced mother of two.

During the investigation, detectives discovered Jordan bought a bus ticket under the name "Debbie Kelly" four days before she disappeared.

Surveillance tapes captured video of the woman taking the HART bus from her apartment complex to the downtown Tampa Greyhound terminal to purchase the ticket.

Then after she talked to a relative at 4:30 p.m. May 7, she donned a wig and blue scarf and took a Greyhound to Orlando at 10:50 p.m.

In Orlando, she went to a bus station restroom in the wig and scarf and came out in a pink hat, investigators said.

Then she boarded the bus again, bound for Tallahassee, with stops in Jacksonville and Lake City. When she arrived in the state capital, another surveillance camera captured the last image investigators found of her, at 9:15 a.m. on May 8.

There were no warrants for her arrest and deputies couldn't locate anyone the grandmother would call an enemy, a sheriff's spokesman said in a previous interview.

Sheriff's spokeswoman Vida Morgan said Jordan's family didn't release any more information other than that she called and said she was in Georgia.

Robbyn Mitchell can be reached at (813) 226-3373 or rmitchell@sptimes.com.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/article1012760.ece

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Woman's intentional disappearance costs $20,000, but deputies are required to look

By Rebecca Catalanello, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Saturday, June 27, 2009

TAMPA — A woman disappears. The door to her empty apartment is unlocked.

The home is neat with no sign of struggle. Her black purse sits on the dining room table. Her cell phone was left behind.

No one could know then that the 57-year-old mother and grandmother had vanished of her own accord, that it would take more than a month, 570 deputy hours, 300 interviews and $20,000 in taxpayer expense to find out she was okay.

"There's no law that says if a person wants to pick up and disappear that they can't do that," Hillsborough County sheriff's Maj. Harold Winsett said. "It's not against the law."

And if it happened again, sheriff's deputies would search again. They have no choice. "We have to assume the worst," Winsett said.

Susan Jordan took a break from her life May 7, boarding a Greyhound bus bound for Tallahassee wearing a wig and using the alias of "Debbie Kelly." After her son discovered her gone, he told deputies she had been sad recently, but not depressed.

On Saturday, Jordan, a divorcee and native of South Dakota, called her family from a Savannah, Ga., hospital. Sheriff's deputies made contact with her at the same hospital three days later.

Even with her found, there's no public explanation for the trip.

Though they say she's safe, the Sheriff's Office won't talk about her condition, citing health care privacy laws.

Jordan returned to Tampa on Thursday night the same way she left — on a bus. Deputies planned to speak with her Friday afternoon, Winsett said.

When her son reported her missing May 8, Sheriff's Office investigators responded in every way they knew how.

Detectives pulled cell phone and bank records. Crime scene technicians took dozens of photographs of her apartment, collected fingerprints from her freezer door and collected cigarette butts from an ashtray on her screened porch.

Divers searched the pond at her apartment complex and a marine unit scoured part of Old Tampa Bay near her home. A helicopter pilot flew overhead more than once, searching for signs of the missing woman.

A Sheriff's Office bloodhound sniffed Jordan's pillowcase, then followed the same scent from Jordan's front door out of Bridgeview Apartments to Kelly Road before loosing the track somewhere near Memorial Highway.

A detective traveled to Tallahassee to search for Jordan after they discovered she had taken a Greyhound bus trip from Tampa to Orlando to Jacksonville to Tallahassee.

All that — and she wanted to be gone.

"With this type of investigation, as costly and frustrating as it is to find out this person just wanted to leave, we are, by the same token glad about the outcome," Winsett said.

There's no way of getting around the public expense of such a search — unless, of course, criminal charges are filed.

In 2005, Jennifer Wilbanks, the infamous "Runaway Bride" from Georgia, was ordered to pay $2,550 restitution to the Gwinett County Sheriff's Office and $13,250 to the city of Duluth after she staged her own disappearance before her 600-person wedding.

In that case, Wilbanks was charged with making false statements after telling police she'd been abducted and sexually assaulted — and soon after recanted.

Winsett said it's unlikely there will be charges in Susan Jordan's case. He declined to comment further, again citing medical privacy laws.

As rare as it is for someone to intentionally vanish without telling any family members, Winsett said, the role of law enforcement stays the same.

"We can't just turn a blind eye to it," he said. "Because if we didn't and the results were worst-case, you'd be pounding me about what we didn't do. Furthermore, it's the right thing to do. If someone disappears, you look for them."

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