{"id":389341,"date":"2022-01-04T10:39:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T07:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/patricia-cavallaro-identified-in-cold-case-with-dna-match\/"},"modified":"2022-01-04T10:39:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T07:39:50","slug":"patricia-cavallaro-identified-in-cold-case-with-dna-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/patricia-cavallaro-identified-in-cold-case-with-dna-match\/","title":{"rendered":"#Patricia Cavallaro identified in cold case with DNA match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Patricia Cavallaro identified in cold case with DNA match<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/patricia-cavallaro.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The remains of an unidentified woman found nearly three decades ago wr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed in a plastic cover and dumped in a shallow grave in a California\u00a0desert town has been identified as a New York native.<\/p>\n<p>Riverside County District Attorney officials announced Monday that a DNA match confirmed the remains belonged to 57-year old Patricia Cavallaro, who had been reported missing since 2001.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cavallaro\u2019s remains were found on Oct. 24, 1994 by people who were digging up debris and spotted the shallow grave in the Thousand Palms area in\u00a0eastern Riverside County, Calif.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Coroner officials declared the cause of death as \u201chomicidal violence,\u201d but how she died is still unknown, said DA Supervising Investigator Ryan Bodmer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe we had her identified, which led us to do the additional investigation that we never would\u2019ve been able to do had we not done a genealogical\u00a0tree,\u201d Bodmer said. \u201cIt\u2019s not just identifying the victims who would have remained unknown but obviously to arrest the perpetrator of the crime and bring them to justice. But identifying the victims is also a very big deal for the families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ancestry records show Cavallaro was born in 1937 in Oneida, New York but moved to California when she married in 1956. She had two children and settled in Bellflower, Calif. before she was reported missing in 2001 by her husband.<\/p>\n<p>Cavallaro\u2019s husband, who died in 2017, told investigators that his wife\u00a0vanished after leaving their home.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the remains found\u00a0in 1994 were unidentified for years. A national database for unidentified and missing persons noted blue shorts, a red blouse and underwear\u00a0were found with the partial skeletal\u00a0parts, but there was no identification or jewelry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer body had been partially buried in the sand and wrapped in a white plastic sheet tied with a brown cord and partially exposed to the elements,\u201d according to the database report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The report also estimated the remains to have been in the shallow grave for one to four months before it was discovered. Bodmer said the body was so decomposed that coroners could not determine the manner of death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Riverside County DA\u2019s Regional Cold Case Homicide Team, which was formed in 2020, took the case on and sent a sample of the remains to Texas-based laboratory Othram Inc.\u00a0 The team has about 700 cold cases to date.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, investigators also continued to gather information from old reports and records to put together a potential family tree. They also used information from a Private DNA service company called GEDmatch.com.<\/p>\n<p>Using genetic matches from GEDmatch and their potential family tree, investigators were able to locate Cavallaro\u2019s biological son, who then provided his DNA sample to the state Missing\u00a0and Unidentified Persons System.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The state Department of Justice issued a final report and in mid-December confirmed the remains were Cavallaro.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter so many years had gone by, her biological son doesn\u2019t want to make any statements, but he simply said he assumed that something had happened because he hasn\u2019t heard from his mom in over 30 years,\u201d Bodmer said. \u201cAt least with this confirmation he was able to know where she is. How she should be honored is what he\u2019s battling with right now.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The supervising investigator told the Post that there is no evidence to suggest Cavallaro and her husband had a history of violence in their relationship, and the deceased husband and her son are not considered suspects.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The case remains an unsolved murder case, Bodmer said.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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