On February 8, 2017, the Lee County Sheriff’s responded to a shooting along Hancock Bridge Parkway in North Fort Myers, Florida. After several calls to 911, deputies discovered 32 year old Eric Duff shot to death inside his own home. This was a drug deal gone wrong during the early morning hours.    Eric was a son, brother, and father of a now six year old child.  He was no stranger to law enforcement, and involved in drugs. Investigators are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying the shooter or shooters, and anyone with information is asked to contact the Lee County She ..read more

On December 10, 2018 the Lee County Sheriff’s responded to a a body laying the driveway of a house on Quentin Ave in Lehigh Acres Florida. Upon arrival deputies would discover 39 year old Trenesa Roberts shot to death in the driveway of her home. She was on her way to work at the Bus Depot for the Lee County Schools when someone ambushed her in early morning hours of December 10th.      She was a daughter, sister, and single mother of four children. She was a private person who kept her life and relationships to herself.  Investigators are seeking the public’s assistance ..read more

On October 7, 1995, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office recovered a female body in the water near York Island, south of St. James City, off the southern tip of Pine Island, Florida. The woman was wearing a maroon/red V-neck pullover scrub top with the words, “Charleston S.C. V.A. Hospital,” on the back. She was also wearing a yellow metal ring with a 2mm ivory colored stone, a lightweight metal bracelet, and a white metal watch on her left wrist.  She is believed to be from South Carolina and was likely a smoker. During her life she had sustained bone fractures and had surgically placed scre ..read more

Just after Valentine’s Day in 2010, Lee County Sheriff’s office deputies received a call from a mother wanting to do a welfare check on her 37 year-old daughter, Dawn Lofton.    A few months later, her fear would turn to reality, as Dawn Lofton’s remains were located in a wooded area off of State Road 82. Dawn was last seen at her boyfriend’s house on Penny Drive in North Fort Myers.   Lofton’s killer is still among us and someone may know more about what happened on Penny Drive on that chilly February morning.   Listen to Dawn Lofton’s episode of Seeking Closure: Lee Count ..read more

On the early morning of July 2, 2017, 51 year old Alice Dorton, a white female from Lehigh Acres, got into a white Ford SUV and was never heard from again. Alice Dorton was a transient by choice, but had a few romantic live-in relationships. Alice has family that lived in Florida at the time of her disappearance. Her daughter has never given up hope on finding out what happened to her mom on that early summer morning.   Listen to Alice Dorton’s episode of Seeking Closure: Lee County’s Cold Cases and help us get justice for Alice and closure for her family. You or someone you know might be ..read more

On Friday, November 1, 2013, at approximately 3:58 am, the Lee County Sheriff's Office received a call via the 9-1-1 operator in reference to the possible shooting.  The caller advised he had been shot and they were still out there, the caller disconnected. The location of the incident was in Lehigh Acres, Lee County, Florida.  Deputies were dispatched to the scene.      Deputies arrives on the scene and noticed two victims, one with a gunshot wound to the right hand and the other one, Jaabin Robinson, a black male born on August 28, 1983 unconscious on the ground with ..read more

On February 5, 2015 members of the Tice Fire Department and Central District Deputies responded to a trailer fire located  in the Tice area of Fort Myers. Fire Department personnel met with the complainant Peter Matthew Albritton, who resided in the trailer with Donna Chatterton. Albritton claimed Chatterton was not in the trailer when he returned home earlier nor could he confirm if she was in the trailer when the fire occurred.   On February 6, 2015 Central District Deputies responded to the residence of Diane Bisram who requested to file a missing person’s report for her daughter ..read more

  On August 15, 2013, at approximately 12:26 p.m., a man reported that he had observed what he believed to be human remains in the area of Leah Court & Meadow Road, Lehigh Acres, Florida. The man was an employee of the Lee County Electric Cooperative (LCEC). Lee  County Deputy Leslie Green responded and confirmed that the body of a deceased white male lay on the roadway inside Leah Court, an undeveloped cul-de-sac in a wooded area of Lehigh Acres.  The decedent had several physical defects that were consistent with gunshot wounds; one in his head, several in his torso, and ..read more

On or about September 13, 2002 at approximately 4:27 p.m., the Lee County Sheriff's Office received a 911 emergency medical request call in reference to a female found lying on the 4loor in a rear bedroom, unresponsive and bleeding from a gapping laceration to her neck. The female victim also had a coaxial cable wrapped around her neck. The incident occurred at 350 Louise Ave. in Ft. Myers, Lee County, Florida. Deputies were dispatched to investigate along with Lee County E.M.S. The first responding Deputies arrived on scene to find the white female had been fatally injured and secured the sc ..read more

It was the fall of 1993 in Southwest Florida. The warm nights were getting shorter and shorter and the reality of what actually unfolded on the night of October 16th would haunt this Florida town for decades to come.  Fire department officials were dispatched to a vehicle on fire in Lehigh Acres. They would find 30-year-old David Comparetto dead. He was murdered under extremely suspicious circumstances. David was a single man who grew up with disabilities and struggled to find his place in life. David wanted to be accepted and find love. However, this isn’t a love story, it is a homicide ..read more