Forty‑four years after a young mother was kidnapped and murdered, Davie police are cracking open the cold case file, hoping new DNA technology could lead to her killer.
Delores Bailey was a young mom from Pennsylvania who moved to Hollywood in the early 1980s. At 24, while working the overnight shift at a 7‑Eleven on North Federal Highway, she vanished.
“She never came home. She had a husband and a child at home. They reported her as missing,” Davie Police Officer Julia Ross said.
Remains found a year later
That was January 1982. A year later, a landscaper found her remains near Griffin Road and the Turnpike in Davie. She had been shot multiple times in the head…