Sept 2007 rbbm.
Who killed Delia Adriano?
''It was a Sunday night. Adriano's fiancé dropped her off at her parents' home on Wildwood Drive at about 9:30 p.m. The pair had just watched a soccer game.
Danny Dutra drove away as his fiancée walked to the side door. She never made it in the house.
Several witnesses in the Wildwood and Slade Crescent area told Halton Regional Police they saw a woman fitting Adriano's description - slight, about 5-foot-1 with short, brown, curly hair - being forced into a vehicle later that night. The man and woman were arguing, according to witness reports, and then the car drove off.
Six weeks later, Adriano's naked, partly-decomposed body was found in a forested area in Milton, more than 20 miles from her home.''
''The Campbellville handyman, then 35 years old, was cutting lumber for firewood when he tripped and dropped his chainsaw in the wooded area known as Lover's Lane, at the intersection of Third Side Road and Second Line.
"She was there. I was laying right at her feet, where I fell," Parchem said. "I thought somebody had shot a deer and skinned it at first. Then I looked up and I (saw) it wasn't a deer, that's for sure.
"You could hardly tell it was a body," he continued. "She was just laying there with no clothes on."
''A graduate of Gordon E. Perdue High School, Adriano was working as a secretary for Wear-Check International of Toronto, a laboratory specializing in fuel, before she disappeared. She had been employed there for four years.
An autopsy failed to determine the cause of her death.''
''The detective is confident, however, that Adriano died at the hands of someone she knew.''
''Witnesses also told police the verbal quarrel between the two continued in the car before they drove off, leading the detective to believe this was someone Adriano was familiar with.
''The handful of witnesses were able to create a sketch of the suspect, described as male, white, 5-foot-7 to 5-foot-9, medium build with brown hair feathered back to the neck.''
The vehicle, a dark blue, two-door sub-compact late 1970s Chevrolet Chevette or similar car with Ontario plates, was parked in the driveway of a model home being used as a sales office near the Adriano home, according to witnesses.
The car also had three stripes along its side.''
"She was a very outgoing, social person, she had a lot of friends. Much of her contact was in the Portuguese community at that time," he said.''
