ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35 ORLANDO) - In this weeks "Missing" report, FOX 35 is focused on Sandra Lemire. She went missing May 8, 2012. Her grandmother, who calls her "Sandy" said she borrowed her minivan to meet a man whom she had first chatted with online, but she never returned home from Kissimmee. She also never called as she promised she would.
Lemire's grandmother Pauline Varner said Sandy had been living with her to help care for her after surgery. "I know somehow, some way, some time, we'll find out what happened to her, you know," said Bob Varner, Sandy's father. Bob said his daughter, who was 47 years-old at the time, is a diabetic who requires daily insulin, but he did not believe she had taken her medicine with her the night she and the Red 2005 Ford Freestar minivan vanished. Sandy told her grandmother Pauline Varner that she would be meeting a man where he worked in Kissimmee, and she did just not at the restaurant that she initially reported to police. Surveillance video provided by the Orlando Police
Department shows Sandy enter the Denny's in the Old Towne Area of Kissimmee, sit down for a few minutes as she seemed to wait for the employee she was there to meet, then leave with him. Thirteen minutes later he would return.
Orlando Police Detective Peter Cadiz said they do not believe that man is a suspect. He was polygraphed and interviewed for several hours. Plus, co-workers confirmed his alibi.
"We verified that he was in that restaurant for another 6 hours, a little over 6 hours after she left," said Cadiz.
A photograph of Sandy's Florida tag number J368ZE was taken that night. It is the last image connecting Sandy to any location.
"Her vehicle was captured on a toll violation from Osceola parkway as it exited off of Poinciana," said Cadiz.