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Crime scene tape blocked off a home along Rose Street Wednesday as Auburndale Police Department officers conducted a warranted search. Police wouldn't say why they were there.
However, the man who lives in the house, Jake Rudy, said police showed up at his home after his girlfriend told them the couple saw Tonya Whipp back on June 6.
Whipp, 38, has been missing since May. Her family says May 26 was the last time they were in contact with her. In late June, Auburndale police officially started investigating Whipp's disappearance as a missing person case.
Rudy tells 10 Tampa Bay Whipp lived at his house 12 years ago. He's been friends with her for more than a decade and said it is not like her to disappear like this.
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