A Tampa-area family’s long wait for answers about the disappearance of their husband and father has come to an end.
The Tallahassee Police Department announced this week that skeletal remains had been found in a wooded area off Apalachee Parkway, a commercial road dotted with strip malls and hotels on the east side of the city.
Shortly thereafter, they announced that, with information received from the local medical examiner’s office, they had identified the deceased as Jason Winoker, 52, of Land O’ Lakes — about 20 miles north of Tampa — according to the Tallahassee Democrat.
Winoker disappeared from the SpringHill Suites by Marriott on Aug. 17, 2021, which is about one-third of a mile down the the Apalachee Parkway and across the street from where his remains were found.
His wife, Renee, told the local CBS affiliate WCTV at the time that the two were asleep in their room at around 1:00 a.m. when Jason woke up, grabbed his wallet and room key, and left without his phone.
She said he seemed “disoriented,” and told Tampa NBC affiliate WFLA the following month that he acted “irritable.”
“I don’t think I thought much of it in the moment because it wasn’t that weird for [him] to go down to the lobby or something,” she told WCTV.
But Jason wasn’t there when she woke up or when she went back to the hotel in the evening. Eventually, she reported him missing.
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