CA CA - Davette Gaunt, 32, San Diego County, 1 Jan 1992 *Arrest*

On Monday, San Diego County sheriff’s homicide investigators tracked McDonald to the small town of Safford, Ariz., where he has lived for years and once played with a popular local rock band. The 64-year-old is now in jail on suspicion of murdering his girlfriend 25 years ago.
Gaunt’s body has not been found. She was 32 when she disappeared.
“We believe the murder occurred in their house and that she was the victim of domestic violence,” sheriff’s homicide unit Lt. Kenn Nelson said. “It’s a circumstantial case. We presented it to the DA’s office and got a warrant” for McDonald’s arrest.
He said Gaunt’s mother, reached at her Delaware home on Monday, was “beside herself with joy, and thankful” that an arrest had been made.
Gaunt and McDonald had lived together on Anza Avenue just outside the Vista city limits. They apparently wanted to split up and were fighting over custody of their daughter, Nelson said.
Investigators now figure that Gaunt was killed on Jan. 1, 1992. Nelson isn’t saying how it was done. He said there is evidence that shows her body was disposed of in North County or possibly Riverside County.

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