The Brief
- Police in Altamonte Springs are renewing their search for answers in the 2004 killing of Susan Perkins, who died while escaping an armed abduction.
- Perkins and a friend were forced into her car at gunpoint, taken to a bank ATM, and locked in the trunk before managing to escape.
- Investigators say the suspect remains unidentified 21 years later and are urging anyone with information to contact Crimeline.
ORLANDO, Fla. – Police are renewing calls for information in the 2004 killing of a woman who died while trying to escape an armed abduction outside a Seminole County bank.
What we know:
On Aug. 31, 2004, Susan Perkins and a friend were working inside a salon on Maitland Avenue when a masked man with a rifle forced them into Perkins’ red Ford Focus, investigators said. The suspect ordered them to drive to the Washington Mutual Bank on East Altamonte Drive, where he made one of the women withdraw money from the drive-through ATM.
The gunman then forced the women into the trunk of the car. Both victims managed to pull the emergency release and leap from the moving vehicle as it left the bank. Perkins struck her head on the pavement and later died from her injuries.…