One of those two U-boats was found about ten miles east of Port Canaveral in 1963 and the other was found near Egmont Key in the channel leading into Tampa Bay.Įliot Responds: Mr. This leads to the conclusion that an unknown number of Germans came ashore in that time and disappeared into this country. Both had high ID numbers which placed them among subs built just before the defeat of Germany and both were undamaged which indicated they were intentionally sunk by the occupants. A fact that does not relate to German spies, per se, but to German nationals infiltrating into Florida at the end of WWII, two U-Boats were found scuttled off Florida beaches.
Last week: Florida History: The anthem that helped change historyįrom a reader: Dear Eliot, I enjoy your column every Sunday in the Sarasota Herald Tribune. Share yours with us by leaving a voicemail at (850) 270-8418. READER REWIND : Everyone has their own piece of Florida history. Twelve years later, in October 2006, Rolling died of lethal injection.
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As a lengthy trial was to begin in 1994, Rolling surprisingly announced he was pleading guilty. 24, 1991, authorities declared their prime suspect was Danny Rolling, jailed in Ocala for a supermarket robbery. 28: Manuel Taboada and Tracy Paules, both 23, of Miami.įive months after the murders, on Jan. 26: Christina Powell, 17, of Jacksonville and Sonja Larson, 18, of Pompano Beach. In 1990, in a stretch of just three days, five people were brutally murdered.Īug. Just after the FSU murders, fearing the killer at FSU had a yen for college campuses, the University of Florida had become unnerved and beefed up precautions. Authorities confirmed he was responsible for 16 slayings in Florida and western states, and they strongly suspected him in 36 more.
In his final days, he’d confessed to a string of at least 30 murders. Bob Martinez said after the execution, "Ted Bundy was that individual."įlorida Time archives: Get caught up on the stories you’ve missed "If there's ever been anyone in Florida's Death Row that deserved the electric chair," Gov. 24, 1989, almost 11 years to the day after the FSU murders. He would be convicted in Leach's death and would die at 42 years old in Florida's electric chair on Jan.
His name was on the FBI's Most Wanted list. Ted Bundy was fingerprinted then arrested. Her body would be found two months later in an abandoned pigsty some 30 miles away.Ī week after Kimberly vanished, a Pensacola police officer spotted a suspicious car that turned out to be stolen. Three weeks later, and about 100 miles to the east, in Lake City, 12-year-old Kimberly Diane Leach didn't come home from school. Three other sorority sisters who were assaulted survived. He severely beat Lisa Levy, 20, and Margaret Bowman, 21, with a tree limb in their bedrooms, then strangled them. Related: Florida History: Is UF really Florida’s oldest state university?Įarly on Super Bowl Sunday in 1978, a man worked his way into the Chi Omega sorority house in Tallahassee, at the edge of the FSU campus. But they were grimly linked via two of Florida's, and America's, most notorious serial killers. Readers: The University of Florida and Florida State University are rivals in both sports and academics.
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