TAMPA, Fla. — On this episode of To The Point Already, Bay News 9 anchors Rick Elmhorst and Roy De Jesus take a closer look at a cold case about an 18-year-old woman named Lisa Anne Mowrey who disappeared in Tampa in 2004. Her remains were not found until 2010, and no one really knows exactly what happened to her.

Lisa Anne Mowrey's photo, along with photos of victims from other cold cases, was placed on some playing cards, which Florida Department of Law Enforcement Agent Tommy Ray inherited to distribute throughout prisons and jails, hoping to find some answers.

"Those cards really reach a level and a network of people that we wouldn't always get to, whether you're a police officer, or a reporter, or whoever's looking, these cards take it to that next level," said Jennifer Dubasak, one of the hosts of the podcast, Dealing Justice, which specifically dives into cold case playing cards to help solve these cases. "So sometimes, you know, you'll have somebody that will talk, and that will give information to a third person, and then it ends up tiering up."

Rick spoke with Ray recently, who shared that he had received 40,000 decks of cards with these cases. A man who was interested in this concept, who had printed them up, had passed away, which is how Ray received them.

Donna Mowrey spoke with Rick and Roy about the devastating case about her eldest daughter.

According to our partners at the Tampa Bay Times, the day the beauty school student went missing, she packed up her smock, tools and extra clothes and headed to catch a bus to class. No one heard from her again. That is, until two blueberry farmers stranded on the side of Interstate 75 discovered human bones. The Times reported that days later, police were calling her parents to tell them their daughter had been found.

"It took me six years, one month, 10 days to find out her remains were on the side of I-75, about a mile off of Bruce B. Downs. And it was devastating to our family," said Donna Mowrey. "Her twin brother and her three other sisters had to move forward in their lives, and it's been very hard and difficult, because we think about her every day."

Donna Mowrey said that the medical examiner of Hillsborough County told her that her daughter died a horrendous death.

"It was very violent, and when we, as a family, saw her remains, her skull had to be glued back together. She had missing teeth…and I had to look at my child…and I picked up her skull, even though that's morbid…to check her teeth, because I knew her smile so well, and it was her," said Donna Mowrey.

Still, to this day, Donna Mowrey is searching for closure on the case.

The hope is out there that these playing cards will help generate some leads.

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