DUNDALK, Md. — Twenty-five years after Gomti Patel was found dead in her Dundalk apartment, Baltimore County Police are renewing their plea for public assistance in solving the cold case.
On the afternoon of January 19, 2001, Patel was pronounced dead at the scene on the 3100 block of Wallford Drive, about half a mile from North Point Boulevard. The 44-year-old mother was found strangled on her living room floor in what police believe may have been an interrupted burglary.
“Everybody loved her. She was so nice, you know? I lost my whole life,” said Rasik Patel, Gomti’s husband, in an emotional plea for answers shortly after her death…