DNA confirms the identity of a young Houston wife and mother, who hasbeen missing since 1970.
woman who’s been looking for her missing mother for more than 50 years is finally getting answers.
With no real memories of her mom, Cynthia has been clinging to photos of her mother, preserving old newspaper clippings about her disappearance, and holding on to stacks of letters, like the one she showed me from Unsolved Mysteries, after years of begging for help to find her mom, to anyone who would listen.
This past Friday, Detective Buse told the family DNA confirmed Patricia had been buried minutes from where they live, in a county cemetery as a Jane Doe, for years. "Even though it’s a bad outcome, it’s still a good outcome," 72-year-old Leroy Thomas concluded. "Now we know for sure where she is." Unsolved missing person cases are getting new attention across America, as the Gabby Petito case proves how powerful public interest can be and helping to solve them. We have been speaking to local experts and parents about how Gabby's case has given new hope to those still waiting to find their loved ones. Simply sharing a missing person's flier that pops up can have such a great impact does that can reach millions of people all over the world.
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