Kim Marie Swann

Kim Marie Swann was a 21‑year‑old young woman whose life was rooted in the Tampa Bay area. Public records from the time describe her as a vocational student; contemporaneous reporting also records that she lived and worked in the local community. Though the public record about her private life is limited, the verified details make clear she was a real person with plans and ties to family and community at a time when she was still shaping her future.

Those who study the historical record of the community remember Kim as one of the young women of the area in the early 1980s whose lives and potential mattered to friends, family, and neighbors. While newspaper coverage and investigative records from the period focus on the events surrounding her death, it is important to hold the human facts first: Kim was a young adult taking vocational training and living in Tampa Bay, and she was known to people who cared for her. Her life — not only its end — deserves to be acknowledged.

Because a family-published obituary or funeral notice matching her full name and the exact date of death (November 11, 1984) was not found in the public obituary archives examined, this remembrance centers on what can be verified and offered with respect. The limited public information should not be taken as a measure of her worth; rather, it reflects what records and contemporary reporting preserved. Her name remains among those remembered by family members and in historical records of the community. This page honors her as a young person whose life had value beyond the circumstances that brought her into public attention, and whose memory is part of the local history of Tampa Bay.