The volunteers behind Tampa-based Sunshine State Sonar hope to solve a 50-year-old mystery by finding the body of Teresa Lyn Fittin, a Fort Lauderdale high school senior who went missing in August 1975, lead diver and owner Michael Sullivan tells New Times.
Fittin, who represents Fort Lauderdale’s second-oldest missing person cold case, was 18 and a student at Stranahan High School when she and her green 1966 Nash Rambler went missing, Sullivan says. She was last seen leaving her apartment at about 1 p.m. Aug. 1, 1975, to calm down after reportedly fighting with her boyfriend, Sullivan tells New Times.
Fittin worked as a server at a local beachfront hotel and dreamt of becoming an oceanographer or artist, according to the Charley Project, which profiles missing persons’ cold cases. But Fittin would never realize those dreams…