Gene Saucer is looking for a toothless cowboy – a truck driver from Texas who left a Winter Park bar with his daughter three weeks ago. She hasn’t been heard from since. A retired Air F…
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DAD HOPES FLIERS HELP FIND WOMAN DAUGHTER LEFT BAR WITH TRUCKER
Sharon Mcbreen Of The Sentinel Staff THE ORLANDO SENTINEL
Gene Saucer is looking for a toothless cowboy - a truck driver from Texas who left a
Winter Park bar with his daughter three weeks ago. She hasn't been heard from since.
A retired Air Force pilot and Realtor, Saucer has turned detective since her disappearance, talking to more than 50 people.
The clues he has unearthed point to a man with a broken nose, weathered skin, decayed or missing teeth, and a tattoo on his arm. Now Saucer is relying on the kindness of strangers to post fliers with a photograph of his daughter and a description of the cowboy, hoping someone will recognize them and phone police.
Saucer, almost 70, has served in three wars. But it's been an uphill battle trying to find his missing daughter, Roxanne Martin.
Saucer said he suspects foul play because it is unlike his daughter to disappear without calling her parents or friends. The woman took no belongings from her Orlando apartment.
Orange County Sheriff's Detective Jerry Geier emphasized that the truck driver is only wanted for questioning. The tall trucker who called himself Randy or David is the only link police have to the missing 37-year-old woman.
Martin, who works at Anything Plastic in Winter Park, and the man left the Fairbanks Inn at about 9:30 p.m. May 4 in a shiny black 1988 Kenworth tractor with a sleeper cab and wind spoiler. The trailer appeared old and may be silver or white, witnesses said.
"We're making every effort to find this guy," said Saucer. "If he's still in Florida, we should be able to run him down."
Saucer talked to at least 50 people who spoke with or saw the man at the Fairbanks Inn. A friend of Martin's printed thousands of fliers for free and Saucer has persuaded Orlando truck stops to pass them out.
He also asked the state Department of Transportation to post them at weigh stations throughout the state.
People Saucer talked to said the man looks looks 40 to 45 years old, weighs 200 pounds and is 6 feet 2 inches in his cowboy boots. He has graying brown hair, a beard and a mustache.
The man wore an armadillo stick pin on the front of his black cowboy hat and a thick belt with a big oval buckle.
Martin is 5 feet 4 inches, 155 pounds, with short red-brown hair. She wears glasses and has a long scar on her left arm.
Anyone with information on Martin or the trucker can call Orange County Sheriff's detectives at 407-657-2500.