51 Year Old Fort Lauderdale, FL Woman Josephine Frenna Missing Since 8/21/2008
51 year old Josephine Frenna from Fort Lauderdale, FL has been missing since Thursday, August 21, 2008. Josephine Frenna had sought a restraining order from her estranged husband, 58 year old Gerardo Di Marco. Not again, looks like another case of a divorce going terrible wrong. Why can’t people just allow the other to walk away?
Josephine Frenna
Josephine Frenna, 51, who recently moved from Canada, previously told a Broward County judge that she and her son were “affraid for our life” because her estranged husband, Gerardo Di Marco, is “violent” and “dangerous,” the Herald reported.
Di Marco filed for divorce last week, and Frenna was scheduled to be in court Friday for a hearing on the restraining order against him.
Frenna’s 14-year-old son became suspicious Thursday when he returned from school to find his mother’s car, purse and cell phone, but no trace of her. Police have searched nearby apartments, hospitals, jails and airlines with no luck.
Frenna’s family and friends have been interviewed as well. De Marco was located Friday by Fort Lauderdale police and has been cooperative, police told the Herald.
”We want to find out what happened,” Steve Stabile, a family spokesman, said.
According to Det. Kathy Collins, a Fort Lauderdale Police spokeswoman, “there is no evidence that a crime was committed;” however, the relatives of missing Josephine Frenna fear foul play. Police have also interviewed the estranged husband, Di Marco, whom police said ”is being cooperative,”
She disappeared a day before a court hearing in which she was going to ask a judge to continue a restraining order — first issued in July — against her estranged husband, 58-year-old Gerardo Di Marco.
He filed for divorce last week.
Although Frenna was absent from the hearing, Broward Circuit Court Judge Jack Tuter extended the restraining order, according to Michael Emery, Frenna’s attorney.
”I have not heard anything about Josephine,” Emery said.
”She was supposed to have come Thursday to see me,” he said.
Anyone with information is asked to call Fort Lauderdale police at 954-828-5700 or Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS.
UPDATE I: Investigators Check to See if Body Is Missing Florida Mom Josephine Frenna
U.S. Coast Guard officials found the body of a woman clad in a blue bathing suit about 20 miles east of the Sebastian Inlet early Sunday afternoon, the Miami Herald reports.
Sgt. Frank Sousa of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department told FOXNews.com that they expected results of the dental records check to be completed on Tuesday.
Woman found off inlet drowned, sheriff’s office says
An autopsy shows that drowning was the cause of death of the woman whose body was found about 24 miles east of the Sebastian Inlet over the weekend, according to the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office.
Fort Lauderdale detectives traveled to St. Lucie today to see whether the body is Josephine Frenna, 51, a Fort Lauderdale woman who vanished Thursday morning.
UPDATE II: Body Found Off Fla. Coast ID’d as Missing Mom; Death Ruled a Drowning, but Probe of Circumstances Continues
UPDATE III: Police: Keys found on beach belong to drowned Lauderdale woman
FORT LAUDERDALE – A set of keys found in a bag on a beach belong to a Fort Lauderdale woman who went missing and later was discovered dead in the ocean, police said today.
Although police have not officially determined whether Josephine Frenna’s death was accidental, the finding of the bag suggests that she could have gone for a swim in the ocean before she vanished.
But Frenna’s family held a news conference today to dispute that.
“There is no way that Josephine went into the water of her own volition,” family friend Steve Stabile said at the condo building along Galt Ocean Mile where Frenna lived.
To further discuss the case of missinh Josephine Frenna, go to Scared Monkeys.net: Missing Persons.