LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The stays of a San Diego, California, lady reported lacking in 1986 have been positively recognized after being discovered at Lake Mead years in the past, based on the Mohave County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Carol Ann Riley was a nurse who labored at Scripps Clinic in San Diego. On the time of her disappearance in 1986, she was relationship a person identified to her as Robert Howard Smith. She had a dinner date scheduled with him on the date of her disappearance and instructed buddies that she was planning to interrupt up with him, based on the Mohave County Sheriff’s Workplace (MCSO).
When interviewed, Smith instructed police that Riley had canceled the date. Two days later, Smith left city and dropped out of sight. Detectives investigating Smith found that his actual title was Robert Dean Weeks and had a historical past of going by false names. Additionally they discovered that his ex-wife, Patricia Weeks, disappeared from Clark County on April 25, 1968, a couple of weeks after their divorce was finalized.
Smith had additionally dated an actual property agent who disappeared, a lady by the title of Cynthia Jabour. She had a dinner date scheduled with him and supposed to finish their relationship. She was final seen on Oct. 5, 1980.
Weeks’ enterprise affiliate, James Shaw, was final seen on Could 5, 1971. He disappeared after arguing with Weeks, and his bloodstained car was discovered deserted in a Las Vegas car parking zone. Their our bodies had been by no means discovered, MCSO mentioned in a submit on its social media web page on Tuesday.
In April 1987, the investigation involving Weeks aired on the tv present Unsolved Mysteries. A warrant had been issued for his arrest on account of fraud and embezzlement costs from his enterprise. On account of viewer response, Weeks was positioned and arrested in Arizona.
On Could 16, 1987, an individual rounding up steers round Bonelli Touchdown at Lake Mead discovered a human cranium on the bottom. An additional search resulted within the discovery of further stays buried in a shallow grave and wrapped in a blanket. On the time, the stays had been these of a feminine regarded as between 20 to 40 years previous. Makes an attempt to determine her had been unsuccessful; nevertheless, her dental report was positioned right into a system, and she or he was listed as Jane Doe, MCSO mentioned.
In 1988, Weeks was convicted of the homicide of his spouse, Patricia Weeks, and Cynthia Jabour, regardless of their our bodies by no means being discovered. He was by no means charged with the homicide of Riley and Shaw. He was sentenced to life in jail in Nevada and died there on September 20, 1996.
In February, investigators despatched parts of the unidentified individual’s clothes and the blanket wherein she was wrapped to a lab in Arizona in an try and acquire DNA, however the efforts had been unsuccessful. Investigators then discovered that her skeletal stays had been cremated in 2016 and her ashes scattered at an unknown location.
On July 15, investigators had been contacted by personnel on the Mohave County Medical Examiner’s Workplace after an e mail acquired indicated {that a} forensic odontologist from the Lacking and Unidentified Individuals Unit, California Division of Justice, had labored on a dental comparability of the Jane Doe sufferer and Riley, on account of their comparability, they positively recognized Jane Doe as Carol Ann Riley, MCSO mentioned on Tuesday.
