Twenty years and over 3,000 leads after the disappearance of Tiffany Sessions, the Alachua County Sheriff's Office held a press conference to remind people the search is still on.
ASO tries to crack cold cases by holding press conferences on anniversaries. The cold cases unit was created in 2007 to pursue unsolved murders and disappearances.
Monday marked the 20-year anniversary of Sessions' disappearance from Gainesville.
She was a 20-year-old finance major at UF at the time.
Between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Feb. 9, 1989, Sessions went for a jog, leaving her apartment in Casablanca East Condominiums and heading along Southwest 35th Place.
Her roommate and frequent jogging partner, Kathy Hsu, studied that night and stayed home.
But, when Sessions was still gone five hours later, Hsu began to worry. That's when she called Sessions' mother and the search began.
itnesses reported that a woman fitting Sessions' description was seen speaking to people in a vehicle along Williston Road, and that the woman may have entered the vehicle, but the witnesses weren't sure.
"We're fairly certain that something bad happened to her," said Steve Maynard, spokesman for Alachua County Sheriff's Office. "And we'd really like to bring someone to justice for this."
More than 30 cold case files are still being investigated by the sheriff's office, some of them going as far back as the 1960s.
Novel strategies have been used by cold case detectives to find information, such as distributing playing cards featuring victims' faces through Alachua jails.
