The Davie Police Department has reignited efforts to solve a decades-old murder mystery with the aid of cutting-edge DNA technology, officials declared this week. In a case that has remained unsolved since 1982, investigators are seeking answers to the killing of Delores Bailey, a 24-year-old mother whose life met a tragic and violent end after she vanished while working an overnight shift at a Hollywood 7-Eleven, as reported by Local 10 News.
The incident unfolded on January 21, 1982, Bailey was abducted, an act which left her family— a husband and a young son—grappling with her inexplicable disappearance. Eleven months of anguished searching culminated on December 8, when a landscaper discovered skeletal remains in a location shrouded by the woods near Griffin Road and Florida’s Turnpike. The remains were positively identified as Bailey’s through dental records, a grim discovery that brought a close to one chapter of the nightmare as it ushered in decades of unanswered questions, according to WSVN News.
It was the Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office that ultimately declared Bailey’s demise a homicide, asserting that she succumbed to multiple gunshot wounds, an untimely fate for the young mother whose case eventually went cold despite the exhaustive efforts of detectives from multiple law enforcement agencies…