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Human remains found by a kayaker in Florida<\/a> have been identified as those of a 23-year-old woman who disappeared more than 40 years ago.<\/p>\n

Rose Marie Gayhart was reported missing in March 1985 by her parents, who lived in Dansville, New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before her disappearance, Gayhart was last known to be living and working in the Cape Coral and North Fort Myers area, according to the Cape Coral Police Department.<\/p>\n

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She\u2019d been living with her boyfriend, Robert Paddock, and his mother, Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers reported in a 2013 video aimed at drawing new attention to the cold case<\/a>. She\u2019d moved to the area just three months before her disappearance, Cape Coral Police Chief Anthony Sizemore told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

When Gayhart\u2019s frequent letters and phone calls to her family “quickly stopped,” they “had a gut feeling something was wrong,” Crime Stoppers reported. They knew, according to the video, that she and her boyfriend didn’t have “the perfect relationship.”<\/p>\n

After interviewing witnesses, including Paddock and his mother, detectives said Gayhart was last seen “walking down the street with a suitcase” after being “kicked out of the trailer” where the three lived. A neighbor told investigators that Gayhart “came to her house to use her phone to call her family,” according to Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n

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“That’s when she told her neighbor that she was pregnant and she wanted to keep the baby, but her boyfriend did not want her to keep the baby.”<\/p>\n

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A neighbor in the trailer park reported “a lot of arguing and a lot of crashing one night, as far as things being destroyed,” according to the video report.<\/p>\n

Gayhart had just started working at Howie\u2019s Hot Dogs in Cape Coral.<\/p>\n

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“Her boyfriend at the time went to pick her up, and she wasn’t at work,” Sizemore said.<\/p>\n

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Restaurant staff told authorities that she\u2019d left with a man in a red pickup truck.<\/p>\n

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Two independent witnesses reported seeing Gayhart before her disappearance with “a white male in a red pickup truck,” Sizemore said.<\/p>\n

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Identifying him is thought to be a critical piece of information that could help solve the case.<\/p>\n

In May 2024, a kayaker paddling in a northeast Cape Coral canal discovered a human skull and alerted police.<\/p>\n

With the help of a New York<\/a> law enforcement agency, Florida authorities obtained DNA from Gayhart\u2019s family. It took two years, but testing on the skull revealed proof Gayhart had been found.<\/p>\n

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“For more than 40 years, Rose Marie Gayhart\u2019s family has carried the weight of not knowing what happened to her,” Sizemore said in a news release. “While this identification brings long-awaited answers, it also strengthens our resolve.<\/p>\n

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“No matter how much time passes, even after four decades, our investigations do not stop, and our pursuit of justice does not end,” he said.<\/p>\n

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The long-cold case<\/a> now is considered an active homicide investigation.<\/p>\n

Now, Sizemore is asking for help.<\/p>\n

“We ask anyone with information to come forward so we can help bring accountability and closure to this case and to the family.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/florida-kayaker-grisly-find-identified-woman-missing-decades-cops-hunt-killer <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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