The 20th anniversary of UF student Tiffany Sessions’ disappearance will be noted Monday with a news conference announcing new leads.
On Monday, 20 years since University of Florida student Tiffany Sessions disappeared, the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office will announce new leads.
Sessions’ father, Patrick Sessions, who lives in Miami, said he had not been fully briefed on the leads, which will be discussed at a 10 a.m. news conference, but that they were more solid than others pursued since 1989. Still, he told The Miami Herald he does not expect to find out exactly what happened to her.
One of the new tips is from a man in jail, who Sessions said had information that would be hard to come by without “some exposure to the case.”
Sessions said he does not expect to find Tiffany alive. He just wants closure.
Tiffany, who would now be 40, left her Gainesville apartment for an evening jog and never returned. During the first week she was missing, her father was joined by a 1,000-person search party.
‘You never know when somebody who has moved to Washington state, has totally forgotten about Tiffany, reads about it again and says, `You know, I should’ve called the cops because there was this guy that was really weird and I should’ve told them,’ ” Sessions said.
The fact that the investigation has continued, he said, is “encouraging because at some point a case gets stale and people have done all they can do.”
To remind people of Tiffany, Sessions also launched a website, www.tiffanysessions.com, to make it easier for anyone with information to come forward.
He said he hoped the reminder about the $25,000 reward for information leading to the remains or abductors would bring forth something useful soon.
”It’s a terrible anniversary to go by,” said Sessions, 62. “Twenty years and we don’t know what happened to her. . . . I’d like some closure to find out what happened to Tiffany, and I don’t have any reason to believe whoever did it still isn’t out there.”
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