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Boyfriend offers glimpse of night ending in death
By COLLEEN JENKINS
© St. Petersburg Times, Music lover Sandra Skipper apparently spent the last night of her life singing a few tunes with her boyfriend of four years. Though concrete answers surrounding the Port Richey woman's death from a hit-and-run on Fox Hollow Road early Saturday morning still number few, a clearer picture of her that night emerged Tuesday during an interview with her longtime boyfriend, Greg Logsdon. Logsdon, 32, was with 28-year-old Sandra Skipper when Skipper's mother dropped the pair off at Gulf View Square mall at 6 p.m. Friday evening. Neither Logsdon nor his girlfriend had a car. About 8 p.m., the couple headed to Pour Boy's Bar & Grill at 8601 Little Road for a night of karaoke, Logsdon told the Times on Tuesday. The two sang some songs together -- I Want You to Want Me and Wonderful Tonight among them -- and had a few drinks. It was a typical Friday night of fun, he said. The couple didn't leave the bar until a little after 2 a.m., when it closed. Then they took a cab to the 7-Eleven convenience store at the corner of Fox Hollow Road and U.S. 19 to get a drink. There, Logsdon said, they had a "spat." He said a sudden change in Skipper's mood triggered the argument, a common occurrence because she suffered from bipolar disorder. Though Skipper had lived with him since February, Logsdon suggested she go to her parents' home that night until they smoothed things over. "She's done this numerous times," he said. "It's nothing out of the ordinary for her to go to her mom's house." They parted sometime between 2:30 a.m. and 3 a.m., he going toward his home on Brentwood Drive and she walking toward the phones at the convenience store. It was the last time Logsdon saw his girlfriend. She was wearing a light blue, tie-dyed short-sleeved shirt, black pants and brown boots. Sandra Skipper died Sunday evening at Bayfront Medical Center of injuries sustained from the accident that happened about 60 feet from U.S. 19, only one street away from her parents' home on Amarillo Drive. Logsdon said she must have been walking home as planned. The Florida Highway Patrol has classified this case as a hit-and-run but did not return phone calls on Tuesday to provide information on the investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call Cpl. S.E. Campbell of the Florida Highway Patrol at (727) 841-4181, ext. 134. - Colleen Jenkins can be reached in west Pasco at 869-6232 or (800) 333-7505, ext. 6232.
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