Driving past the thick underbrushes next to the roads here in Florida, I often wonder how many bodies are hidden in there. Macabre but true. Sometimes I wonder how these bodies are being found at all.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/state/8151866.htm (...) http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/state/8151866.htm (...) State and local investigators have identified skeletal remains found in the Florida Panhandle last year as a 27-year-old woman with a criminal past, but her murder remains unsolved. Leslie Ann Oswalt has two young children who she gave up for adoption long ago and had lost touch with her family in South Carolina. She was killed last summer and dumped in a wooded area in this coastal town, her body hidden by brush for at least three months before it was found in October. (...) It is unclear whether Oswalt lived in Apalachicola, but sheriff's Lt. Ronnie Segree said she a some run-ins with the law here. Franklin County court records show she was arrested in 1999 on a misdemeanor charge of passing worthless checks. State corrections records show she was sentenced to two years of community service for burglary and grand theft in 1996 in Marion County and absconded from a 10-year probationary sentence she received two years ago in Wakulla County for armed robbery and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
Some people don't get second chances. Sounds like a sad ending to a sad life. Hopefully, the murderer will be found, but unfortunately, that doesn't seem likely. A cold case?
