CA CA - Los Angeles Co, WhtFem 20-30, UP4456, drug overdose, maybe name 'Patty', Dec'75

[victoriarobinson642]

I wish there was a photo for comparison with the unidentified Patty - maybe a visual ID could be made.

 

[HopeRains]

Glad to see Patricia Wilson was submitted. I believe this is a really good possible match even though she is younger than the lower end of the age range, which has been wrong before. For all the reasons previously mentioned - Glendora less than 30 miles from LA, the Patty tat (and the huera tat, blonde), physical stats, etc.

 

[CousinKimi]

Thanks for searching... I can see why you thought this could be her. It looks like she (Patricia Gentle) is indeed found in 2008 by her adopted son. Very interesting stuff.

No, she was not found by her son. He found us not her. She is still missing, but there is an open cold case on her now and my sister and I went down to the police station in Redondo Beach, CA and gave our DNA so that it could be put into Codis. They have definitely been working hard on it and have even added more detectives since first digging up a body in Redondo Beach when a house was torn down to build new townhomes they found a woman about her age buried in the backyard. The skull was missing. She was determined to be about the same age as my mother and had given birth. The body was determined to have been in the ground since the 70s and I now know the exact date my mother went missing was on her 34th birthday March 30,1973. They got DNA off the femur bone of the bones they recovered but it was not a match. Just this past December 2025 right around Christmas time one of the new cold case detectives sent me photos to see if I thought they were my mother which was very upsetting to me because they were of a woman that had been strangled. I’m assuming they didn’t have DNA or he wouldn’t have sent me those photos and I don’t think they were my mother, but I can’t be sure that angle is so weird so I don’t know what else is happening. He only told me that they had other bodies to compare our DNA to at least we know if she has found anywhere and her DNA put into Codis she will be identified. I don’t think we ever will find out not until we die and go to heaven.

 

[Bit of hope]

I'm sorry @CousinKimi. As this thread is about a woman who overdosed in Dec. '75, maybe named Patty. Do you think this could possibly be your mother. Did LE looked into this case?

 

[Bit of hope]

I think Patty Wilson is a pretty possible match. My hopes are up that this case can be resolved, although, if they didn't kept anything of the deceased, it's going to be impossible to make a possitive identification. If IRR, in those days, Los Angeles burried their unidentified in mass graves or cremated them.

 

[Mysteries1974]

I think Patty Wilson is a pretty possible match. My hopes are up that this case can be resolved, although, if they didn't kept anything of the deceased, it's going to be impossible to make a possitive identification. If IRR, in those days, Los Angeles burried their unidentified in mass graves or cremated them.

I believe she’s a match as well. I believe somewhere it was mentioned that she was cremated but I’m not certain on that. I’m hoping she’s buried or kept somewhere so that her DNA can be taken

 

[The4TierBridge]

I believe she’s a match as well. I believe somewhere it was mentioned that she was cremated but I’m not certain on that. I’m hoping she’s buried or kept somewhere so that her DNA can be taken

All UIDs in Los Angeles are cremated, including in the present day, and the ashes are all buried together in mass graves separated by year. At this point in time the bodies were being retained for 1 month, so this remains case would have been sent to the County Crematorium at Boyle Heights on about January 21, 1975.

 

[Caring1]

This is promising to finally see an exclusion. I wonder if it was done through fingerprints or if they were able to locate her remains for DNA testing.

Phyllis had DNA available, no dentals and unknown if her fingerprints were available.

 

[The4TierBridge]

This is promising to finally see an exclusion. I wonder if it was done through fingerprints or if they were able to locate her remains for DNA testing.

Phyllis had DNA available, no dentals and unknown if her fingerprints were available.

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Phyllis Corbin recently had fingerprints taken from an arrest record entered into NamUs per her own thread here. I'd assume this was a print comparison (and these remains don't exist anymore).