Name: Thomas Stephen Stump
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: July 24, 1995
Location Last Seen: Summerland Key, Monroe County, Florida.
Date of Birth: September 28, 1953
Age: 41 years old
Race: White
Gender: Male
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 175 lbs.
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Partially bald; trim beard & mustache. Tan complexion. Wears contact lenses. Scars: Tom has an appendix scar
Dentals: Unknown
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Unknown
Clothing: Tom was last seen wearing tan shorts and a tan shirt. One of his work boots is missing.
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown
The day before he went missing, Stump spoke with his mother on the telephone. He had just rented a van to take his wife and their two daughters on a vacation trip. He said he would call her as soon as they got back from their trip.
That evening, the couple took the girls and two of their friends out to dinner to celebrate their daughters eight birthday. The next morning, Stump put gas in the van and went to the bank and to the post office in preparation for the trip.
About 16:30 that afternoon, one of the daughters phoned her grandmother to tell her that they thought her dad had committed suicide.
At 19:30 the wife contacted the Hertz car rental office and told them she needed a new set of keys, because her husband had lost the first set while swimming in a canal. She was told to call back the next day. In her second call, she said the keys were lost when her husband went out in a boat and committed suicide. At 19:53, she told another individual at the rental agency that she thought her husband had drowned himself in the ocean.
Stump has not been seen again.
The families of Thomas Stump and Diana Lynn Harris believe the cases are connected.
Agency Name: Monroe County Sheriff's Office
Agency Contact Person: N/A
Agency Phone Number: 305-296-2424
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: 95110253
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Added: Prior to 2011; Last Updated: 11-13-2021 - By: Htmlcnvtr
Questions or comments? Please contact appropriate member of the Area Team
** Listed information is from the time of disappearance.
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