Body Sounds Like Don in Manatee County

Letter written by my mother and faxed to Detectives Lingo and Fernandez on 4/27/1998.

 

RE: Jack Donald Lewis Case #97-069358

 

Dear Detectives:

 

Carole Lewis has asked that I send you a copy of the article in today’s Tampa Tribune.  I called the Manatee Sheriff’s Office and they said that although all missing-person cases are checked by computer, it would be best to have you confirm that this case was also included.

 

I don’t know if you were told or not, but Jack Donald Lewis has two 6” steel or titanium pins holding his jaws together from surgery done from a previous plane accident.  The evidence to us looks as though Don Lewis was trying to fly a cat from Tampa to Texas.  We know the man in Texas called several days later and asked why Don wasn’t there with the cat he had promised to bring him.  Since Don disappeared in mid-August, this is not likely to be him but we would appreciate your checking out the below article and letting Carole Lewis know.

 

Also she has requested a copy of the missing-person report.  She has never received one.  Please let us know if you need any additional information. 

 

Sincerely, Barbara Stairs, Secretary Phone 920-6534 fax 926-3255

 

MANATEE  Coast Guard Recovers Body Bradenton:

 

Manatee County sheriff’s deputies are trying to identify a body found floating more than 30 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico.  A sport fishing boat captain radioed the Coast Guard shortly before 3 p.m. Saturday that he had come upon a body floating 32 miles west of Longboat Pass.

 

The Coast Guard sent a boat to the location and recovered the body of a white male.  Anyone with information is asked to call the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office at (941) 747-3011 or CrimeStoppers at (941) 77-COPS.

 

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