Tiffany Sessions

Disappearance

On the night of Sessions' disappearance, she told her roommate that she was going out alone for a power walk. Between 4 and 5 PM, she left her apartment on SW 35th Place. Sessions left her wallet, identification, and keys in her apartment. Sessions was wearing a white pullover sweatshirt with long sleeves and grey horizontal striping with "Aspen" printed on the front of the shirt's collar, red sweat pants, and tennis shoes. She was also wearing a two-tone silver and gold women's Rolex wrist watch and was carrying a black Sony Walkman.

After five hours, when Sessions had still not returned, her roommate alerted Sessions' mother that her daughter was missing. The police did not initially handle the disappearance as a crime because a crime scene had not been found. There was no sign that Sessions had left her apartment's parking lot, nor were there any signs of a struggle.

People who were in the area of Sessions' disappearance have stated that someone fitting Sessions' description was seen speaking to individuals sitting inside a vehicle. Eyewitnesses were uncertain as to whether the woman entered the vehicle, and authorities have never confirmed that the individual in question was Sessions.

Investigation

Michael Christopher Knickerbocker was considered to be a suspect involved in the disappearance of Sessions. While Knickerbocker was in prison serving five consecutive life sentences, he reportedly told his fellow inmates that he had murdered Sessions. He also said that he had chained Sessions to a tree, and discarded her body close to Fort Myers in the Caloosahatchee River, but because Knickerbocker was not living in Gainesville at the time of Sessions' disappearance, the feasibility of his involvement has been questioned.

As of 2014, police believed that now-deceased and convicted serial-killer Paul Eugene Rowles was responsible for Sessions' disappearance and murder. The reasons that they believe this is that at the time that Sessions had disappeared, Rowles was working as a pizza delivery man, and also for a construction related company near the path where Sessions had been last seen. When in January 2013, Rowles was interviewed about Sessions’ disappearance, and that’s when the police made a startling discovery: investigators said that Rowles had kept an address book with information on the people he had murdered. In his book, a woman named Linda Frida was listed as the first woman that he had killed. Investigators say there is a possible reference to a woman named Elizabeth Foster, a woman that Rowles may have also killed, in his book.

Foster, who was living in Gainesville was reported missing, and was later found dead in a wooded area off Williston Road about a mile from where Sessions had disappeared. But the most shocking find found in the book was simply a notation that said “#2 2/9/89 #2”. Investigators noted that this was the date that Sessions had disappeared, and the #2 had quite possibly stood for his second woman that he had killed, that being Sessions. Rowles died in prison in 2013.

Finding Tiffany Sessions projects and aftermath

Public efforts to find Sessions include the Charley Project, and the Tiffany Sessions Facebook Project Page. The Sessions family are offering a $25,000 reward for information in the case. They have worked closely with the Alachua County Sheriff’s Department and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to find the remains of Tiffany or convict any suspects involved in this case. In 2013 Sessions' father, Patrick Sessions, hired a new detective to help find his daughter. Also Tiffany's mother Hillary has written a book about her missing daughter called Where's My Tiffany?, that the describes her joy of raising Tiffany, and her heartbreak about losing her.