42 Years After She Vanished, a Man She Was Seeing Is Charged in Her Murder
Her family reported her missing but there was no trace of Ms. Peroni for more than a decade, until a landowner found a skull in 1997 near the woods where she was last seen.
Almost three decades after the discovery of those partial remains, the authorities in Josephine County, Ore., working with DNA experts in Texas, were able to confirm that the skull was Ms. Peroni's.
A 72-year-old man, Mark Sanfratello, who was in a relationship with Ms. Peroni at the time of her disappearance, was arrested in Chico, Calif., on Saturday and charged with murder, the Josephine County Sheriff's Office said.
Mr. Sanfratello is in custody in California, pending extradition to Oregon. It was not immediately clear if he had a lawyer.
Because he was the last person who was seen with her, Mr. Sanfratello swiftly attracted the interest of investigators after she disappeared, Sheriff Dave Daniel of Josephine County said in an interview.
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