MISSING: James Winkles | Sebring, FL 1999
Obscura: A True Crime Podcast
Justin Drown
4.6 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
James Winkles’ disappearance weaves between existence and suspicion, an echo in Sebring, Florida.
James Winkles, a man cloaked in mystery, dark eyes entrapping curiosity. At 47, his stories flickered like twilight dancing across old tales.
On an unassuming day in 1999, Winkles vanished from Sebring, Florida, leaving nothing but questions. His absence, an eerie silence bleeds into Florida’s night tapestry, unnerving those who speculated the moments between then and now.
Investigators embrace an enigma they unravel slowly, Winkles’ history unspooled like a loosely knit woolen thread, irritably unyielding. Discoveries mounted, each crumbling part of a latent history of crime, nestled within veiled shadows.
Legist judgment eventually anchored Winkles’ narrative where possibility ended; memorial tales recount fear spelled through whispered warnings. Florida remembered, scarred and cautious.
This episode features court documents and missing person announcements. Listener discretion advised.
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| 0:32.0 | Welcome listener. |
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| 0:35.6 | Take a seat next to the fire. |
| 0:40.0 | Welcome to Obscura, where we shine a light on the dark. So, I'm going to be. The From the Archives of the Charlie Project, which profiles over 15,000 cold case missing people, mainly from the United States. |
| 1:36.7 | Patricia Elaine Action, age 25 years old, height and weight, 5 foot 4 96 pounds missing since 526 |
| 1:48.4 | 1978 Caucasian female brown brown hair, blue eyes. |
| 1:54.8 | Action has a scar on her abdomen. |
| 1:57.0 | Her nicknames are Patsy and Patty, and she may use her married name, Woodyard. Her blood is type O. Action was last seen leaving the |
| 2:06.4 | Ramada Inn on US 19 north and State Route 60 in Clearwater at 11.30 p.m. on May 26, 1978. She had moved in with her parents six weeks |
| 2:19.8 | before her disappearance. After she filed for divorce and was forced to drop out of Stetson |
| 2:25.4 | University due to an illness. She had recently taken a job at the Kapak Tree Inn, |
| 2:31.0 | she had just gotten her paycheck and had gone out to the Ramada Inn lounge that |
| 2:36.0 | night after work to celebrate with friends. |
| 2:39.8 | After about a half an hour in the lounge, during which time she had half a drink. |
| 2:45.0 | Action said she was going to the bathroom and would return in a few minutes. |
| 2:49.5 | She took her purse with her. |
| 2:51.3 | The employees didn't notice anything amiss at the time. Action never returned to |
| 2:55.6 | her friends, never came home, and has never been heard from again. Her parents say that they did |
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