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Police Still Digging For Evidence At Tampa Home

ERIC HAUSMANN / News Channel 8

Investigators from the Temple Terrace Police Department search for clues on Oct. 18.

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By VALERIE KALFRIN | The Tampa Tribune

Published: October 22, 2007

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TAMPA - Digging resumed behind a South Tampa house this morning for evidence in a Temple Terrace woman's disappearance roughly two years ago.

Temple Terrace police obtained a search warrant Wednesday for the house at 3908 W. Vasconia St. in connection with the disappearance of Sandra Hamby Prince.

Prince, who lived in Temple Terrace, was a drug counselor who helped found the Agency on Community Treatment Services in Tampa in 1978. She last was seen in December 2005. She was 59 when she was reported missing on Jan. 3, 2006.

Police spokesman Mike Dunn said investigators are continuing to take soil samples under the house, looking for signs of decomposition. They are working with forensic anthropologists from the University of South Florida.

The house was built by Prince's longtime boyfriend, Earl C. Pippin III, about the time she vanished, according to a Tampa building permit.

Pippin's attorney says Pippin has no involvement in her disappearance.

Dunn could not say how long the digging would last. "They're taking it day by day," he said.

Reporter Valerie Kalfrin can be reached at (813) 259-7800 or vkalfrin@tampatrib.com.

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