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Karen Pais lived with her sister, Debra Patton, in a small Carrollwood home in Tampa, Florida but the two women couldn’t have been farther apart and Debra Patton held some type of grudge against her sister and ended up fatally shooting her and burying her in the backyard of the home they shared.

Karen Pais took in Debra Patton about a decade ago, and as the years passed, their relationship grew more strained, friends said. Karen Pais began to utter an ominous warning that to friends felt like more than just dark humor.

“Karen would say, if you find me dead, it was Debra,” longtime friend Cathy Wynkoop recalled.

Friends urged Karen Pais to kick out her sister, Debra Patton, but she insisted she couldn’t do that to family. So the two women lived together but estranged.

Late last month, Karen Pais, 66, disappeared and stopped returning calls and texts. A friend called deputies to check on her. Debra Patton told them she didn’t know where her sister was, records show.

Deputies noticed a disturbed patch of earth in Pais’s otherwise pristine back yard. Friends feared the worst.

“We were telling them, you need to dig up that back yard because Karen would not have left it looking like that,” Wynkoop said.
Detectives eventually returned with a search warrant and started digging.

The house that Karen Pais shared with her sister had been in the family for decades.
Their parents, Armando and Sophie Pais, grew up in Ybor City, according to family friends. Debra was born in 1953 and Karen followed a little over a year later. Armando was a master sergeant in the U.S. Air Force, according to his obituary, so the family traveled a lot.

Karen Pais attended Leto High School and later got a job as a transmission engineer for what was then GTE and later became Verizon, said Pam Nelson, who worked with Pais in the company’s Tampa office and remained friends with her for more than 30 years.

“Everyone loved her because she was so generous and fun to be with,” Nelson said.
Records show the home on Cypress Park Street, in the Carrollwood’s Beacon Meadows community just north of Gunn Highway, was new when Karen Pais purchased it with her parents in 1983. All three lived there until Armando died in 1991. After that, Pais lived there with her mother until Sophie Pais died in 2005.

After retiring from Verizon as a manager, Karen Pais worked as a contract engineer for several years and retired for good about seven years ago, Nelson said.

Over the years, Karen Pais became a devoted Tampa Bay Rays fan, often crossing Tampa Bay to catch games at Tropicana Field, friends said. She liked to hang out with friends at Rick’s on the River, a bar on the Hillsborough River in Tampa, drinking her favorite cocktail, Jack Daniels and Diet Coke.

Karen Pais never married or had kids but loved spending time with her friends’ children and grandchildren, buying them presents and helping them with homework, Nelson said. A dog lover, she lost her Bichon Frise-poodle mix Kodi about a year ago.

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