Detectives hope for new leads as two Tampa cold cases mark 25 years - Tampabay.com
Despite exhaustive investigations, their cases remain unsolved. Despite the similarities, investigators think the crimes were the work of separate killers. Today they are under the watch of Greg Thomas, a cold-case detective with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. Although they're not the Tampa Bay area's most prominent crime stories, Thomas knows that behind every victim is a grieving family that deserves answers. By all accounts, Cynthia Wheaton lived for her job. When she missed work for two days straight, her co-workers checked her apartment in the Sulphur Springs area of Tampa. They reported her missing. Nine days later, a construction worker clearing land for development off Lutz Lake Fern Road in northern Hillsborough County found her decomposing body. Her car, a 1990 Honda CRX, was found the next day in the parking lot of what was then the Sailwinds Apartments, near Fletcher Avenue and N Dale Mabry Highway. Evidence indicated that Wheaton's body had been in the car's trunk. A security log showing the names of everyone who had moved in and out of the parking lot turned up no likely suspects. It was during the 10 days that Wheaton was still missing that Cheryl McMullen was killed. Source: www.tampabay.com
