#cold-case

#cold-case

If you have any information about the homicide of 14-year-old Christine Diefenbach, who was killed 38 years ago in Richmond Hill, please contact @NYPDTips via DM, or by calling 800-577-TIPS. It is never too late for justice.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A Watsonville woman received her sentencing after being convicted in a 30 year old cold case. On Wednesday, Pamela Ferreyra, 61, was sentenced to 13 years and four months for one count of voluntary manslaughter and one count of felony child abuse for the December 1994 death of her infant son, according to a press release by the District Attorney's Office.

When I told them what was happening their first question to me was, How much have you had to drink tonight?', they didn't believe me. She told them the car registration, but she said they made no note of anything she mentioned and declined her offer to go the police station the next morning. She said: They told me to forget all about it.

Her husband knew she planned on picking up Easter candy for their 6-year-old son after work, so he wasn't initially worried when she didn't come home right away. But by 1 a.m., he was calling hospitals and law enforcement for help. A relative found her blue Honda Civic parked and locked at a nearby Big 5 Sporting Goods. Her purse and ID were inside, as was "evidence of a physical altercation," the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department said.

I was so disgusted. Like, no, you can't have a murder in this sea of people already dying - that's not right, not fair. We can't let this go.

She was a mother of two, a grandmother, a woman whose first husband had been a leading trade unionist, and whose home had once been a hub of political activity. By 1967, she was living alone, twice widowed but still a well-known figure in her Easton neighbourhood. There were no witnesses to her murder, and the police investigation unearthed little to go on apart from a palm print on a rear window.

Detectives instead focused on a dispute Jackson was having with his landlord. "As you can imagine, in 1993 they did not have a lot of the things that we have available to us today to find leads - no electronic footprint like we have these days," Smyth said. "They relied heavily on witnesses, fingerprints, that sort of thing. DNA was in its infancy."