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By VALERIE KALFRIN vkalfrin@tampatrib.com Published: February 8, 2009 TAMPA - Lisa DeCarr had a headache and didn't want to go to school. The 15-year-old asked her mother if she could stay home that Thursday. Her mother, Barbara DeCarr, agreed. It was the last time DeCarr saw her daughter alive. Twenty-five years ago, on March 24, 1983, the teenager vanished while her mother and her mother's then-boyfriend, Wayne Tompkins, helped Tompkins' mother move. Tompkins told Barbara DeCarr that Lisa had run away, and DeCarr reported her missing, police said. More than a year later, Lisa's remains were found buried in a shallow grave beneath the porch of DeCarr's former house in Southeast Seminole Heights. Prosecutors said the girl had been strangled and that Tompkins had killed her when she resisted his attempt to rape her...continue to full post

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