50 year case: 'Little Miss Lake Panasoffkee' identified

Sumter County officials said "Little Miss Lake Panasoffkee" had been identified as 21-year-old Maureen L. Minor Rowan, known as "Cookie to her friends and family. Detectives identified the woman's estranged husband – Charles Emery Rowan Sr. – as a person of interest in Maureen Rowan's murder. He died in 2015, the sheriff's office said.

SUMTER COUNTY, Fla. - A young woman killed more than 50 years ago and left in a lake beneath an overpass – known as "Little Miss Lake Panasoffkee" – has been identified, officials with the Sumter County Sheriff's Office said.

Officials also released the name of a person of interest in her death.

Who was "Little Miss Lake Panasoffkee?"

On Feb. 19, 1971, a young woman was found dead under the Lake

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