Human remains found by a kayaker in Florida have been identified as those of a 23-year-old woman who disappeared more than 40 years ago.Rose Marie Gayhart was reported missing in March 1985 by her parents, who lived in Dansville, New York.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.Investigators have been searching for Rose Marie Gayhart since 1985, when the 23-year-old disappeared from southwest Florida.(Cape Coral Police Department)TEEN FOUND IN SHALLOW CALIFORNIA VINEYARD GRAVE IDENTIFIED NEARLY 50 YEARS LATER AS FAMILY WARNS KILLERShe’d 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.
She’d moved to the area just three months before her disappearance, Cape Coral Police Chief Anthony Sizemore told Fox News Digital.When Gayhart’s 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."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.A paddleboarder heads down a canal in Cape Coral on Saturday, Dec.26, 2020.
(USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect)KILLER ADMITS TO DECADES-OLD COLD CASE SLAYING AFTER INVESTIGATORS LEAN ON NEW FORENSIC EVIDENCE: OFFICIALS"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."FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON XA neighbor in the trailer park rep...