Millionaire Vanished After a Note About Her Cat — 45 Years Later, the Mystery Is Solved

A wealthy woman disappeared from Los Angeles after an apparently ordinary message suggested she had stepped out briefly. The case soon became a story of forged documents, missing assets and a murder conviction without a body.

The latest breakthrough answers the question investigators could not resolve for more than four decades: where Thelma Gaston had been left and who an unidentified victim really was.