Lora Ann Huizer was only 11 years old in November 1983.
She was found dead three days after she disappeared in St. Lucie County, and now former Deputy James Howard Harrison, who died in 2008, is now believed responsible.
Harrison claimed employment with several local police agencies on his resume.
One of the agencies mentioned during the Thursday news briefing held at the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office was the Edgewood Police Department. We confirmed Harrison was a reserve officer here back in the late 1970s.
"We went back and looked at his personnel file and any files we had at that time,” Edgewood police Chief John Freeburg said.
Only with Edgewood less than a year, Harrison was terminated in May 1977. The records hint there were reasons but didn’t offer any details.
“There's no documentation in that file about what issues there were or why he was looking at being terminated at that time,” Freeburg said.
The St. Lucie Sheriff's Office said Harrison claimed a short employment in the early '60s at the Orange County jail, but the sheriff's office said he never worked for OCSO.
"Since that person was in Central Florida, we will have our cold case unit look at old cases from the 1980s to see if he's possibly a suspect in any local cases,” Orange County Sheriff John Mina said.
Edgewood police will do the same.
"We have a bad cop who was out there 40 years ago. If he committed a crime then everybody wants to know about it. We want to solve it,” Freeburg said.
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