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After 55 years, a murder victim’s name yields a mystery rooted in Tampa

Sumter County investigators this fall identified the woman known as Little Miss Panasoffkee. Now, they’re turning to Tampa for clues about her murder.

One of many composite drawings, left, shows an artist's rendition of what the murder victim known as Little Miss Panasoffkee was believed to have looked like when she was alive. At right, Maureen Lu Minor Rowan appears in a family photo taken in 1969 while she was pregnant with her son, Charles Rowan Jr. This fall, Sumter County sheriff's officials said they had determined that Rowan, of Tampa, was the long unidentified victim who was found dead in 1971 in a creek beside Interstate 75. An effort to identify Rowan's killer remains ongoing. Her husband, the late Charles Emery Rowan, is a person of interest in the case. [ Sumter County Sheriff's Office ]

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Dan Sullivan is a criminal justice reporter. Reach him at dsullivan@tampabay.com.

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