Identified! MA - Granby, off Route 116, WhtFem 15-26, UP14969, shallow grave, clothes, gold ring, Nov'78 - Patricia Ann Tucker

[Springrain]

Excited to hear news today!

 

[Alleykins]

Has a time been set for this announcement yet?

 

[Nell91]

I've just read 10.30am Eastern standard time?

 

[HmmMysterious]

Has a time been set for this announcement yet?

10 minutes from now.

 

[HmmMysterious]

Here’s the link

WATCH LIVE: ‘Major Breakthrough' to Be Announced in Unsolved Homicide of ‘Granby Girl'

 

[HmmMysterious]

Granby Girl is Patricia Ann Tucker

Son of ‘Granby Girl’ recalls his last memory of his mother, who disappeared in 1978

 

[HmmMysterious]

RIP Patricia

 

[Springrain]

RIP Patricia Ann Tucker.

Any news on DOB?

 

[HmmMysterious]

RIP Patricia Ann Tucker.

Any news on DOB?

July 28, 1950

 

[John/Jane Doe]

RIP Patricia Tucker.

 

[Alleykins]

RIP Patricia. I'm so grateful you can go home now.

 

[Springrain]

July 28, 1950

Thanks, so she probably would've been 26/27 around the time she died?

 

[CCJD]

Gagne said Tucker had died in June 1978. She was born on July 28, 1950, the district attorney said, and had lived on the shore of Lake Pocotopaug in East Hampton, Connecticut with her husband, Gerald Coleman.
Gagne stated Coleman is a person of interest in his wife’s murder. Coleman had never reported his wife as missing, the district attorney stated, and Coleman died in a Massachusetts State prison in 1996.

Mother ID'd in 1978 'Granby girl' cold case; was shot in head, dragged by neck

The previously unidentified woman's grave has been marked as "unknown" for nearly 50 years. Using DNA analysis, officials have finally figured out who she was.

www.masslive.com

 

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Gagne said Tucker had died in June 1978. She was born on July 28, 1950, the district attorney said, and had lived on the shore of Lake Pocotopaug in East Hampton, Connecticut with her husband, Gerald Coleman.
Gagne stated Coleman is a person of interest in his wife’s murder. Coleman had never reported his wife as missing, the district attorney stated, and Coleman died in a Massachusetts State prison in 1996.

Mother ID'd in 1978 'Granby girl' cold case; was shot in head, dragged by neck

The previously unidentified woman's grave has been marked as "unknown" for nearly 50 years. Using DNA analysis, officials have finally figured out who she was.

www.masslive.com

Gerald Coleman had an extensive criminal record including attempted kidnapping. I learned that from the livestream

 

[HmmMysterious]

Thanks, so she probably would've been 26/27 around the time she died?

27. Patricia is estimated to have died in June 1978 one month before her 28th birthday

 

[WingsOverTX]

Granby Girl is Patricia Ann Tucker

Son of ‘Granby Girl’ recalls his last memory of his mother, who disappeared in 1978

RIP, Patricia

This article says things contradicted by posts below it.

1) Her son Dale says he & Patricia were in a strangers car when he was dropped off at a youth home

2) Her son says his father died in 2015, not in 1995

Dale, 50, has lived in North Carolina most of his life. He grew up dogged by the mystery of his mother’s disappearance.
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He has scant keepsakes of Tucker: a single photo, baby books she created for him, a lock of his hair and a small tapestry she painted when he was small.
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Dale said he plans to arrange for a proper grave for his mother...."It was an awful end. What I want to do is have a new gravestone made for her. She deserves to have her name on it,” he said.

 

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RIP, Patricia

This article says things contradicted by posts below it.

1) Her son Dale says he & Patricia were in a strangers car when he was dropped off at a youth home

2) Her son says his father died in 2015, not in 1995

Dale, 50, has lived in North Carolina most of his life. He grew up dogged by the mystery of his mother’s disappearance.
....
He has scant keepsakes of Tucker: a single photo, baby books she created for him, a lock of his hair and a small tapestry she painted when he was small.
....
Dale said he plans to arrange for a proper grave for his mother...."It was an awful end. What I want to do is have a new gravestone made for her. She deserves to have her name on it,” he said.

Coleman was not Dale's father.

Another article gives more details on the abandonment of Dale. He was left with a woman who was told his parents needed her to watch him for a few hours. Two days later, they hadn't returned to pick him up and she reported it to DCF. His biological father assumed custody.

This article was fully public for a moment, but is now for subscribers only. I'm not a subscriber so I can't grab direct quotes.

'Granby Girl' Patricia Tucker's rapist husband may have killed her, DA says

Patricia Tucker, the woman identified in the 1978 "Granby Girl" cold case murder, may have been killed by her husband, according to the Northwestern District Attorney's Office.

www.masslive.com

 

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Another article with the same details I mentioned above

Her skeleton was found in the woods in Western Mass. Decades later, officials have finally identified 'Granby Girl.'

“Old-fashioned police work and new-age technology” helped investigators name the young woman whose body was found in Granby in 1978.

www.boston.com

 

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More info and more pictures. She had another child in addition to the son who's been public. Wedding photo of Patricia included in article

Northwestern DA identifies woman in 1978 unsolved homicide “Granby Girl”

The Northwestern District Attorney and Granby police have identified “Granby Girl,” a woman in a 1978 unsolved homicide.

www.wwlp.com

 

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