Sheriff's Office increases reward to $100,000 for 30-year Volusia County cold case

For three decades, Volusia County investigators have been searching for the person or people responsible for the murder of Lauralee Spear.

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On Friday, Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said via social media that they were increasing the reward to help catch and convict Spear's killer to $100,000.

The announcement came the day after Spear would have celebrated her 46th birthday on June 21.

Spear, who was a cheerleader at Deland High School, was killed April 15, 1994, after getting off her school bus to go home.

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Investigators said she was shot during an execution and discovered partially naked behind a burned-out abandoned building a quarter-mile from her home on Deerfoot Road in Deland.

Investigators said at the time of her disappearance, they knew people were on the property shooting guns.

Investigators suspected she was kidnapped after getting off the bus, but those clues only went so far.

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Death row inmate Bobby Raleigh, then 20, was charged with her murder. In 1998, the charges were dropped by the State Attorney's Office. Prosecutors said there was not enough evidence.

Anyone with information about Lauralee Spear's case is asked to call the Major Case Unit at 386-254-1537.

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