A Tampa bay area woman has been missing since May 8, according to local law enforcement investigators. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office believes she left on her own accord, but noted that "[w]e still have an active case" pursuing Susan Jordan, the 57-year-old woman whose children are trying to locate her. Jordan lives by herself and does not drive a car, which makes the circumstances of her disappearance even more odd.
Initially, after Jordan went missing, her children became concerned that she had been the victim of a violent crime - perhaps kidnapping, murder, or even a sex crime. Her home was left vacant and she did not take her purse, cell phone, or even her credit cards along with her. After law enforcement agency investigators began combing the area for clues, however, they turned up more interesting information: Jordan appears to have left town on a Greyhound bus.
Deputies from the Sheriff's Office have located surveillance videotape showing Jordan boarding a bus bound for Orlando at the Greyhound station in Tampa, after taking the local bus system to the station. Jordan, who has shorter, dark hair, was wearing a long, dark wig, with a blue scarf over it. Authorities believe she was attempting to disguise her identity. After arriving in Orlando, she seems to have ditched the wig and scarf in the restroom, and a videotape showed her leaving the Orlando terminal bound for Jacksonville in a pink hat. A few hours later, she is seen exiting that bus and later boarding another, still wearing the hat. This time, she went to Tallahassee, first stopping in Lake City.
Now, authorities do not believe that Jordan has been the victim of a violent crime; instead, it seems that she departed for her own reasons. Still, deputies are continuing to search for Jordan, because her family is continuing to try to locate her. Police believe she may have assumed the name Debbie Kelly and that she remains in Tallahassee at this time.
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