MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Patricia Viola
Just before Valentine’s Day in 2001 a New Jersey housewife goes missing. For almost a decade her case remains unsolved until a bizarre connection is made to a clue that washed ashore years before.
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Episode Source Material
- Disappeared – Missing Valentine. Investigation Discovery via Amazon Prime Video
- The Herald-News – Answer sat in storage for years, by Denisa R. Superville and Scott Fallon
- The Record – Reward in case of missing woman, by Leslie Koren
- The Record – Town mobilizes to find woman missing 10 days, by Leslie Koren
- The Record – Case of missing woman gets boost, by Paul H. Johnson
- The New York Times. Diamond merchant found murdered with 2 others, by Robert Hanley
- State of New Jersey v. Darwin Godoy. July 22, 2011
- State of New Jersey v. Miguel A. Suarez. Submitted January 7, 2009
- Alleged Accomplice avoids homicide conviction, by The Law Office of Kevin G. Row
- Suarez v. Bartowski. December 20, 2012
- NY Times – 4 men are charged with murders of 2 and Gem Dealer
- YouTube: Patricia Viola Missing 2/13/01 – The Day Patricia Vanished
- Patricia Viola Missing: Patricia Marie Viola
- NorthJersey.com – Husband of Missing Bogota Woman Asks for Help, by Karen Mahabir
- PR Web – Fourth Christmas Without Wife and Mother Devastates New Jersey Family, by Kelly Jolkowski
- NorthJersey.com – Archive: Remains identified as those of Bogota woman who vanished 11 years ago, by Justo Bautista & Denisa R. Superville
- Epilepsy Foundation – Memory and Seizures, by Steven C. Schachter, MD. Reviewed by Patty Obsorne Shafer RN, MN
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