Ocasio website launched

LAKE MARY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - On Wednesday, web designers at Spiderhost in Lake Mary were working on the finishing touches of a website to help in the search for a missing Ocoee woman.

Tracy Ocasio, 27, was last seen leaving a bar in Orlando's Metrowest community on the morning of May 27.  Surveillance video shows walking out the door of the Florida Tap Room with a man identified as 28-year-old James Hataway.  Hataway has since been named as a person of interest in the case.

Since her disappearance, family and friends have been frantically searching for Ocasio.

“It tugged at my heart, and I was thinking the guy has enough to deal with,” said Brooks Rawlin with Spiderhost, speaking of Joe Ocasio, Tracy's father.

Rawlin heard about the family’s tragedy on the radio recently. “I have a young daughter, 2 years old. When I see things like that on the news, it breaks my heart and I can’t imagine loosing any loved one, let alone a daughter,” he said.

His staff worked around the clock on the website. “It will be a place where people can go to view pictures, leave comments or any information that could generate any leads.”

To learn more, visit: TracyOcasio.com>>>
 

"I am hoping to get awareness, her name out there, her face out there," said Joe.

The search continued on Wednesday in an Ocoee field after a tip came in that Tracy’s body could be near Buffalo on Blufford roads. Tim miller and a Texas Equusearch crew headed to the scene, but found nothing.

"It’s just frustrating. I was hoping by now we would have some kind of closure to it,” said Joe.

Equusearch is also assisting in the search for a missing Windermere man, Onda Chris George, last seen with Hataway back in February. Apopka Police call Hataway a person of interest in their case, believing there are too may “coincidences” between the Ocasio case and the George case.

Miller and his volunteers combed a wooded area where George's car was found earlier this year.
"This area could be a comfort zone (for the suspect),” Miller said adding that if one body is found, investigators might find the other close by. “Right now, so many thought are going through our minds. It’s starting to get a little frightening if you want to know the truth," Miller said.

On Thursday, agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigations will drain a pond in Ocoee to look for a missing gun from a weekend robbery. They will also see if there are any clues in the Ocasio case in that body of water.
 

FOX 35's Shannon Butler contributed to this report