Yale professor’s father charged in mother’s decades-old murder, says he ‘used me as bait’: report

A Yale prof is speaking publically for the archetypal clip since her 81-year-old begetter was arrested successful transportation with the 1982 sidesplitting of her mother, a lawsuit that remained unsolved for much than 4 decades.

According to a Nov. 24 property merchandise from the Foster City Police Department successful California, Patrick Galvani was taken into custody successful San Francisco and booked successful the San Mateo County Jail connected a execution complaint tied to the decease of his wife, Nancy Galvani.

Alison Galvani, an epidemiology prof astatine Yale who was astir 5 years aged erstwhile her parent was killed, told the Los Angeles Times successful a Dec. 3 interrogation that she is grateful to investigators and prosecutors for "pursuing justness for my mom."

"With an bonzer operation of compassion and resolve, they are moving tirelessly to guarantee that airy is shone upon adjacent the darkest of cases," she said successful a substance connection to the outlet.

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The Foster City Police Department arrested Patrick Galvani successful transportation to a 1982 acold lawsuit for the execution of his wife, Nancy. (San Mateo County Sheriff's Office)

Nancy’s assemblage was recovered successful August 1982 "floating wrong a sleeping container adjacent the San Mateo Bridge" successful Foster City, constabulary said. Although the lawsuit was reviewed respective times implicit the years, authorities said it "remained unsolved until caller developments allowed investigators to determination forward." Officials did not specify what those developments were.

Patrick had been considered a fishy aboriginal successful the investigation, the L.A. Times reported, but charges were dropped owed to a deficiency of witnesses and usable evidence. His lawyer astatine the clip said helium had passed a polygraph test, and Patrick said successful tribunal filings that his woman was experiencing a "mental illness."

Following Patrick's arrest, his existent attorney, Douglas Horngrad, told the L.A. Times that his lawsuit is innocent.

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Patrick Galvani was booked successful the San Mateo County Jail. (San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office)

"This execution complaint was filed against him years agone and the lawsuit was dismissed for deficiency of evidence," Horngrad said. "As I recognize it, the grounds is the same, and we judge the result volition beryllium the same. Mr. Galvani volition beryllium exonerated again."

Prosecutors expressed a antithetic view. 

San Mateo County District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe told the L.A. Times, "We deliberation we person capable to convict and we person an ambitious authoritative who tin execute that."

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The satellite rises implicit San Francisco Bay down the San Mateo Bridge successful Foster City, California, connected Dec. 15, 2024.  (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

At the clip of Nancy's death, she and Patrick were separated. She had filed for divorce, secured a restraining order, and moved retired of their Pacific Heights location to a residential edifice successful San Francisco, according to the L.A. Times.

On Aug. 8, 1982, Patrick allegedly asked Nancy to prime up their girl Alison a time earlier than scheduled nether their shared-custody arrangement. Nancy disappeared that evening, and her assemblage was aboriginal discovered. Her yellowish Buick was recovered wrong Patrick’s garage.

Alison told the L.A. Times that she had agelong feared "my begetter utilized maine arsenic bait to lure my parent to her death." The uncertainty surrounding her mother’s last hours, she said, has haunted her for decades, adjacent overshadowing her wedding day, erstwhile she asked her begetter to locomotion up of her truthful she did not "have to interaction him."

She besides recalled confronting him during a 2008 sojourn to her location successful Connecticut, telling him, "You killed my mother." According to Alison, helium replied, "It wasn’t my fault."

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According to jailhouse records, Patrick Galvani is being held without bail. His adjacent tribunal quality is scheduled for Jan. 15.

Alison Galvani, Horngrad's bureau and the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office did not respond to requests for comment.

Stepheny Price covers crime, including missing persons, homicides and migrant crime. Send communicative tips to [email protected].