Video shows missing woman in Coconut Creek

Woman missing for one week

Published On: Mar 23 2012 04:30:56 PM EDT   Updated On: Mar 25 2012 04:17:32 PM EDT
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CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. -

The search continues for a missing Coral Springs woman as police say they have spotted her in another surveillance video, this time in Coconut Creek.

Coral Springs police said video from a Broward County Transit bus showed Maria Claudia Murphy, 45, standing on the northeast corner of Copans and Lyons roads at 2:45 pm. March 16, the day she was last seen.

Saturday, Murphy's family and friends posted her picture on street corners in Margate and Coral Springs.

"We're everywhere because we feel somebody saw Claudia walking last Friday," said Ellen Murphy, her sister-in-law.

Murphy disappeared on the afternoon of March 16. She was last seen walking east across U.S. 441 at Copans Road in Margate at about 2 p.m.

Coral Springs police found Murphy's BMW in a parking lot behind a restaurant at 7932 Sample Road on Tuesday after receiving an anonymous tip. Alvaro Tobar, who owns the restaurant, which Murphy often visited, said surveillance video showed Murphy getting out of the car and walking toward Sample Road at about 1 p.m.

"This is not the Claudia we know. We really believe that she is incapacitated somehow," said Ellen Murphy.

Investigators have been scouring surveillance videos from county buses in their search for Murphy, with the thought she may have boarded a bus.