Editing Lake Panasoffkee, Florida (section)

===Little Miss Lake Panasoffkee case===
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On February 19, 1971, two hitchhikers from [[Illinois]] discovered the partially decomposed body of an unidentified young woman between the ages of 17 and 24 years old under the northbound lane of Lake Panasoffkee's [[Interstate 75 (Florida)|Interstate 75]] overpass.<ref name="SCT Coverage">{{cite news |last=Reichman |first=Bob |title=New leads in 1971 murder |newspaper=Sumter County Times |location=[[Bushnell, Florida]] |pages=1–2 |date=Jun 28, 2012 |url=http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00028420/00580/search?search=little%20miss%20lake%20panasoffkee |access-date=May 8, 2014}}</ref><ref name="SCSD LMLP">{{cite web |author=Sumter County Sheriff's Office |title=Cold Case File: Little Miss Lake Panasoffkee (1971-0291) |work=Get Involved—Cold Cases |publisher=Sumter County Sheriff's Office |year=2013 |url=http://www.sumtercountysheriff.org/getinvolved/coldcases/coldcase_LittleMissLakePanasoffkee.html |access-date=May 8, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408225357/http://www.sumtercountysheriff.org/getinvolved/coldcases/coldcase_LittleMissLakePanasoffkee.html |archive-date=April 8, 2014 }}</ref> She was found with a man's belt around her neck.<ref>[http://www.thevillagesdailysun.com/articles/2006/10/08/news/news02.txt "Little miss Panasoffkee," by Dan Sullivan (The Villages Daily Sun; Saturday, October 7, 2006)]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

The sheriff's department made several attempts to identify the woman.<ref name="SCT Coverage"/>   In 1986, the Sumter County Sheriff's Department, under the leadership of Sheriff Jamie Adams<ref name="SCT Coverage"/> and lead investigating officer William O. Farmer, exhumed her body.  A forensic anthropologist rendered composite sketches of the woman both at the time of her death and as a child, and the investigator also determined the woman's weight and height. In the early 1990s, the American television series ''[[Unsolved Mysteries]]'' featured the case in an episode. Each attempt to identify the woman was unsuccessful.<ref name="SCT Coverage"/>

In 2012, the Sumter County Sheriff's Department asked the [[University of South Florida]]'s Tampa Bay Cold Case Project to reexamine the remains of "Little Miss Lake Panasoffkee". An [[isotope analysis]] performed by the project indicated she could have been an immigrant from [[Greece]],<ref name="NYT1">{{cite news |last=Gorman |first=James |title=A Jane Doe Gets a Back Story |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |location=[[New York City, New York]] |pages=D1 |date=Nov 12, 2012 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/13/science/isotope-analysis-provides-clues-in-a-florida-cold-case.html?ref=florida&_r=0 |access-date=May 8, 2014}}</ref> possibly hailing from the town of [[Laurium|Lavrion]] (located 60 miles (96 kilometers) southeast of [[Athens, Greece|Athens]]).<ref name="SCSD LMLP"/><ref>{{cite web|last=Jamison|first=Peter|title=Clues emerge in cold case murder that may be tied to Tarpon Springs|url=https://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/clues-emerge-in-cold-case-murder-that-may-be-tied-to-tarpon-springs/1238126/|work=www.tampabay.com|access-date=20 June 2013}}</ref> The victim is believed to have moved to the United States between one and three months prior to her murder.<ref name="NYT1"/><ref>[http://doenetwork.org/cases/470uffl.html The Doe Network Case File 470]</ref>  The new information contradicted the Sumter County Sheriff's Department's initial assumption that the Jane Doe was either white or Native American; they had created composite sketches reflecting those ethnicities. Sumter County authorities determined, based on the time of her death, that she was visiting the [[Tarpon Springs, Florida|Tarpon Springs]] area for the celebration of [[Epiphany (holiday)|Epiphany]] on January 6, 1971. Based on the information from the forensic analysis, the Sumter County Sheriff's Department contacted the Tarpon Springs Police Department and the [[Greek Orthodox]] Church about the case and mailed 6,000 flyers to Tarpon Springs businesses and residents.<ref name="SCT Coverage"/>  As of 2016, the case is still unsolved.<ref name="SCSD LMLP"/>