The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, working with a forensic genetics genealogy company to resolve unsolved cases, identified the skeletal remains of a woman found in Royal Palm Beach in 1987.
In an email Tuesday, PBSO said the woman has been identified as Pati Lisa Loguercio Rust, who is believed to have last lived in the area of Lauderdale by the Sea in Broward County in the late 1980s.
Spokesman Teri Barbera said a homicide investigation is beginning.
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Allen Cone 3:00 PM, Dec 09, 2023
On Dec. 20, 1987, a passerby walking a dog among trees near the intersection of 130th Avenue and 72nd Road discovered the remains. The area is near The Acreage and Loxahatchee.
Through an investigation by PBSO and the Medical Examiners Office, they determined the woman was in her 20s to 30s and “had been there for a long period of time and foul play was suspected.”
No clothing or jewelry was with the remains.