Crime & Safety

Missing St. Pete Mom Dies At Nebraska Hospital: Police

A missing St. Pete mom and daughter were found in Nebraska after they vanished from Florida last week. The mother died at an Omaha hospital.

Angela Jolley had a medical episode and died at a Nebraska hospital, St. Petersburg police said. She was reported missing from St. Pete last week.
Angela Jolley had a medical episode and died at a Nebraska hospital, St. Petersburg police said. She was reported missing from St. Pete last week. (St. Petersburg Police Department)

ST. PETERSBURG, FL — The mysterious disappearance of a St. Petersburg mother has ended after her daughter, who also randomly left the area with her mom almost a week ago, told police her mom died at a Nebraska hospital.

Monday morning, Alexis Jolley contacted St. Petersburg Police Department from Nebraska and told investigators that her mother, Angela Jolley, had a medical episode and was taken to a hospital in Omaha, where she died, a police news release said.

Alexis Jolley told police she was with her mother at the time she died.

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She has contacted relatives, and let them know that she is safe.

Authorities in several states were on the lookout for the two women since Thursday when they visited a St. Petersburg bank and left town. They were last seen Friday on a traffic camera in Tennessee.

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Angela Jolley, 46, and Alexis Jolley, 19, were recorded on their home security camera at 6:30 a.m. Thursday cleaning out Angela's black 2018 Toyota Camry, according to Detective Kevin Haemmelmann of the St. Petersburg Police Department.

After they readied the car, they put their two dogs in the vehicle with them and then went to a drive-thru ATM at GTE Financial bank on 38th Avenue in St. Pete.

Police said Angela Jolley took an undisclosed amount of cash from the ATM and transferred the money to other bank accounts. The surveillance video revealed a couple of unusual things.

Angela Jolley, an employee at the Bay Pines VA, is said by her employers to always be punctual and never late for work, where she reports for duty at 6:30 a.m.

Angela Jolley's stepfather lives with the pair, and he told officials the two didn't share anything with him about leaving St. Pete.

Worried by the sudden disappearance of Angela and Alexis Jolley, friends and family put together multiple searches for the mother and daughter, who they say would never disappear without telling anyone where they were going.

Investigators tracked the vehicle's location through the help of law enforcement agencies across Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and other states.

Cell phones that belong to the mother and daughter were left behind inside their St. Pete residence and are in the custody of police.

Friends and family started a Facebook page called Bring Them Home.

Authorities said the two women were scheduled to fly out of the Tampa International Airport on July 21, but the airline said the women never boarded the plane. They had planned to visit family in Maine.

Related: Car Of Missing St. Pete Mom And Daughter Seen In GA, MS And TN.

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