{"id":352333,"date":"2026-07-25T18:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T18:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/352333\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T18:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T18:33:09","slug":"florida-remains-identified-as-missing-dansville-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/352333\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida remains identified as missing Dansville woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police on Friday announced a break in a decades-long cold case.<\/p>\n<p>The Livingston County Sheriff\u2019s Office announced Friday that DNA found in Cape Coral, Florida, matches that of Rose Marie Gayhart.<\/p>\n<p>Police say her remains were found in a canal by kayakers in May 2024, and a laboratory finally made the match in May 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The former Dansville resident went missing in 1985.<\/p>\n<p>Police say she was last seen getting into a truck with an unknown man.<\/p>\n<p>Cape Coral police are investigating her death as a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is being asked to contact the Livingston County Sheriff\u2019s Office at 585-243-7100, the sheriff\u2019s tip line 844-LCSO-TIP or contact investigator James Merrick at JamesMerrick@livingstoncountyny.go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police on Friday announced a break in a decades-long cold case. The Livingston County Sheriff\u2019s Office announced Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,115,277,13572,275],"class_list":["post-352333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-news","tag-public-safety","tag-rochester","tag-spectrum-news-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}