Welcome back to current affairs, our show about the cases of love gone fatally wrong

that are in the news right now. If this is your first love murder episode, tune back in on

Wednesdays for our main full-length episodes. Today we have a quick current affairs

and the privilege of bringing you the resolution of a decades-old cold case. On 4th of July

in 1983, a 27-year-old woman named Teresa Peroni was at a party on Illinois River Road in the

Selma area of Josephine County, Oregon,

with her boyfriend, 29-year-old Marcus San Fratello. At some point during the party, the two of them

got into a fight. And witnesses saw Teresa walk into the woods with Marcus. She was never seen again.

Her family reported her missing shortly after.

The Josephine County Sheriff's Office investigated the disappearance and determined it was suspicious,

but without a body or physical evidence connecting San Fratello to a crime, they couldn't make an arrest.

The forensic technology that might have helped didn't exist in 1983, so the case went cold,

and San Fratello was never charged.

Fourteen years later, in 1997, a human skull was found on private property near where Teresa

had last been seen.

Investigators brought in a cadaver dog to search the surrounding area, but didn't recover

any other remains.

The skull was sent to the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification for

Examination and DNA testing, but investigators still couldn't build a prosecutable case from it.

San Fratello had also moved to Chico, California by then, and that's where he stayed for decades.

The case sat untouched for another 27 years. In 2024, however, the Josephine County Sheriff's Office

reopened the investigation with support from the Oregon Department of Justice and the local

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