Unsolved Disappearance: Deborah Poe

Last Seen Alive

Studio 222

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.2 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

When a hard-working Florida woman vanishes from behind the counter of her nightshift job at a convenience store, a massive search is launched. A series of chillingly similar disappearances suggests the possibility of a serial predator preying upon female cashiers in the Sunshine State in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

If you know anything about the disappearance of Deborah Poe, please contact the Orange County Sheriff’s Office at 407-254-7000.

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0:00.0	When a hardworking Florida woman vanishes from behind the counter of her night shift job at a convenience store, a massive search is launched.
0:08.4	A series of chillingly similar disappearances suggests the possibility of a serial predator preying upon female cashiers in the Sunshine State in this episode of Last Seen Alive.
0:35.3	Thank you. in this episode of Last Seen Alive. Thanks for listening to Last Seen Alive. I'm your host, Leah, crime analyst by day and true crime
0:42.2	storyteller by night. And as always, I'm your co-host, Scott. Deborah Poe was last seen alive on February 4th,
0:49.3	1990. She was 26 years old at the time and lived in Orlando, Florida, although that wasn't where she was
0:56.1	originally from. Deborah had been raised in northern Virginia and had just moved to Florida about
1:01.4	four months before her disappearance. She'd made the move along with a close friend of hers named
1:06.4	Lori, and the two of them became roommates upon arriving in Florida where Deborah had significant ambitions for her new life.
1:13.7	So were these like high school friends or something that decided to move there together?
1:19.6	Or how well did they know each other before becoming roommates?
1:23.3	They were very close. They were more like sisters than regular friends.
1:27.4	They'd known each other for a while. I'm not sure if they met in college or what, but they were very close. They were more like sisters than regular friends. They'd known each other for a while.
1:28.8	I'm not sure if they met in college or what, but they were good friends.
1:32.1	Okay.
1:32.7	So one of Deborah's ambitions was dance.
1:36.3	Deborah had been dancing ballet since childhood and was very skilled.
1:39.9	Some of her childhood portraits show her standing on point,
1:42.8	posing gracefully in ballet costumes,
1:45.2	and she carried her passion for dance into and beyond her college years. In fact, she hoped to
1:50.4	break into professional dance while in Florida. Chances are, when you think of professional ballet
1:55.0	in the U.S., New York comes to mind. However, there's a professional ballet scene in Orlando as well, which makes sense
2:02.0	because people travel from all over the world to Orlando to be entertained in a variety of ways,
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