MARION COUNTY, Fla. – Detectives in Marion County have spent the last year investigating the disappearance of 26-year-old Sara Gail Ebersole.
The sheriff’s office now says it has since developed a partial timeline of Ebersole’s whereabouts when she went missing last March, as well as that a person of interest in the case is refusing to talk.
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Any new details that could help detectives find Ebersole, no matter how unimportant they seem, “may be the piece of the puzzle we need,” the agency said on social media as it asked the public to submit any information that may aid in the investigation.
Ebersole was last seen March 2, 2023. The night of her disappearance, she was given a ride from a Circle K to a residence in Reddick, located at 18080 North U.S. Highway 441, according to the sheriff’s office. She spent some of the night at this residence with a person who was dropped off there with Ebersole and who lived in one half of the subdivided home, deputies said.
Among numerous new leads in the case is one involving someone named Tyrone Morman, 28, who detectives say left the residence with Ebersole sometime after midnight.
Speaking with detectives, Morman initially stated he never had any contact with Ebersole and was not in town at the time of her disappearance, according to the sheriff’s office. A warrant was obtained for Morman’s cellphone, yet he claimed he had broken the phone and threw it out, detectives said. After a witness told investigators that Morman still had his phone, he eventually turned it over once another warrant was obtained to search his home. Morman was booked Dec. 20, 2023, to face a charge of providing false information to law enforcement, released the next day after posting $10,000 bond, records show.
Searching Morman’s phone reportedly revealed information suggesting he and Ebersole were at a 24-hour convenience store in the northwest part of Marion County early March 3, 2023, investigators said. He is presently considered a person of interest in Ebersole’s disappearance and is refusing to speak with detectives, according to the sheriff’s office.
Ebersole is described as being 5 feet, 1 inch tall and 120 pounds with blue eyes and brown hair.
Anyone with information that may aid in the investigation is urged to contact detectives at 352-368-3542, the sheriff’s office’s non-emergency number at 352-732-9111 — referencing case No. 23-71 — or Crime Stoppers of Marion County at 352-368-7867 to remain anonymous.
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