{"id":352355,"date":"2026-07-25T19:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T19:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/352355\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T19:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T19:28:08","slug":"skull-of-woman-last-seen-41-years-ago-found-homicide-investigation-underway-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/352355\/","title":{"rendered":"Skull of woman last seen 41 years ago found, homicide investigation underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WBBH) \u2013 In 1985, Rose Gayhart vanished without a trace in Cape Coral, Florida. After tireless searching, her case went cold. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Crimestoppers reopened the case in 2013. At the time, officials thought there was a chance she was still alive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cLast time they remember seeing her, she was kicked out of the trailer, and she was walking down the street with a suitcase,\u201d said former special agent Matt Walsh in a 2013 interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">But in 2024, a teenager found a human skull in a canal. Officials learned two months ago that those remains belonged to Gayhart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Today, police continue searching for more evidence and remains in that same lot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt blows my mind that after 40 years they still have some sort of DNA evidence left,\u201d said John Dortch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The discovery made neighbors uneasy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWell, it doesn\u2019t make me feel better \u2018cause it is not solved yet, but I would definitely like to get this person behind bars,\u201d said Ashley Larosa. \u201cGet justice for her and her family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cape Coral police say this is an open homicide investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WBBH via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WBBH) \u2013 In 1985, Rose Gayhart vanished without a trace in Cape Coral, Florida. After&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,2453,14976,144095],"class_list":["post-352355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-cold-case","tag-missing-woman","tag-rose-gayhart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352355","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=352355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}