a mysterious murder in Miami-Dade was resolved after 62 years of waiting by the police of that county in southern Florida, according to local media.
Detectives managed to clarify, after more than six decades, who murdered the local businessman Joseph DiMare, reported this Tuesday a statement from the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office, released by Local10.
After reviewing the case, the police determined that Frances DiMare, the victim's wife, was actually the one who murdered Joseph with a shot to the head.
The victim, who had founded the DiMare Fresh agricultural products company with his two brothers, was found in 1961 with a gunshot wound to the head inside his car, in an open field behind a gas station in the area of Northeast 122nd and North Streets. Bayshore Drive.
His wife's version maintained that she was on her way to dinner with her husband when two armed men entered the vehicle, attacked them and demanded that she drive to the empty lot where the victim's body and vehicle were found.
Likewise, Francis DiMare had told the police that the robbers demanded all of her belongings, hit her in the head with a pistol, leaving her unconscious, and when she woke up, she discovered that her husband had been shot and killed.
Additionally, in her statement she said that she had fled from the vehicle barefoot to the gas station, from where she called the police.
After examining these statements and the evidence, investigators found inconsistencies in Francis' story.
They claimed that there were never armed men, that she was the one who murdered her husband with her own weapon and that the homicide occurred in the garage of DiMare's house.
The murder weapon was later discarded as she drove to the spot where she left her husband's body.
They also did not see that she had injuries from the alleged blow that left her unconscious and that her shoes were properly placed just outside the vehicle. Nor did he have cuts or scratches on the soles of his feet from the gravel on the road, after running as he said to the gas station to notify the police.
The in-depth investigation found that Joseph wanted a divorce and had changed his will, stating that Francis DiMare must be living in his home at the time of his death in order to be a beneficiary.
DiMare's son, Richard DiMare, who was 19 when his father was murdered, told Local 10 that he knew from the beginning who had killed his father. "There was enough evidence that my stepmother should have been detained that day," he said.
Miami-Dade police returned to the case at the request of Richard, who said he was grateful to finally have this closure after six decades.
At the end of 2022, too Broward County authorities solve 28-year-old murder case, through a match in a DNA test.
Sheriff Gregory Tony, along with members of the Police Unit Homicides on Unsolved Cases (BSO) and the crime laboratory of that county in southern Florida informed the press on that occasion of the final results of an unsolved case since April 1994, related to the murder of Lillian DeCloe, 89, at his Pompano Beach home.
BSO investigators reopened DeCloe's case and found DNA on her nightgown, as the killer had sexually assaulted her.
After analysis of that evidence in the crime laboratory, it was discovered that the DNA matched that of a man who had spent time in a Florida prison and was related to a neighbor of the victim, named Johnny Mack Brown.
Sheriff Tony said Brown was a Vietnam veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and drug addiction who had died more than a decade ago, but investigators exhumed his body and found a DNA match to Brown.
In 2018, it was also news how the Monroe County Sheriff's Office managed to solve the mysterious case known as "Valentine Jane Doe Homicide" about the murder of an 18-year-old girl almost 30 years ago.
According to a statement from Sheriff Rick Ramsay, the young woman found with signs of strangulation on February 15, 1991 in a wooded area off US 1 near Mile Marker 35, was identified as Wanda Deann Kirkum.
Records indicated the woman was 18 years old and lived in Hornell, New York, but no one reported her missing and her parents were already dead.
Major Crimes Unit Detective Vince Weiner partnered with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to solve the mystery of Kirkum's death, using novel DNA technology to identify the victim and killer.
The information obtained confirmed that the perpetrator of the crime was Robert Lynn Bradley, a man who was 30 years old at the time of the events and who was also murdered in Texas, 14 months later.
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