Cold Case: Mary Badaracco -Police Ask Public For Help

Cold Case: Mary Badaracco
Police Ask Public For Help



There were new questions on Tuesday about the death of a Connecticut mother.

Open Case: Mary Badaracco

It's been 23 years since Mary Badaracco's two daughters saw their mother alive. Police don't know where she went and haven't found her body. Despite that, they've labeled her disappearance a homicide, NBC 30 News reported.
 
NBC 30's Amanda Raus spoke with Badaracco's daughters, who said they were still searching for answers in this cold case killing . In August 1984, Badaracco mysteriously disappeared, and her husband, Dominic, said she took $100,000 and left him, leaving her car and a wedding ring behind. Badaracco's daughters, Sherrie Passaro and Beth Profeta, didn't find out about her disappearance until a week later.

"I got a call from my stepsister, Donna -- Dominic's daughter," Profeta said. "She took me out to lunch and told me that my mother was gone."

"I was at the house when he told me," Passaro said. "Her car was still in the driveway with a smashed front window through the driver's side window. My first thought was, 'How did she take off if she didn't have her car.'"

Passaro said little by little, things began to add up. Passaro said she noticed there were no longer family pictures hanging at her mother's Sherman house. Even though she said her stepfather, Dominic, told her and Profeta not to report their mother missing, they went to the police.

Dominic Badaracco went for a divorce soon after his wife's disappearance, NBC 30 reported. Since she wasn't there, Dominic got their house in Sherman, and one in Danbury. NBC 30 went to Badaracco's Sherman home, but he didn't come to the door.

Both women said they think someone made their mother disappear. They said there was a core group of people who were protecting the person who harmed Mary Badaracco. State police said they think the same thing.

"Someone that may have a little bit of information, some conversation they may have had with her before she disappeared, something someone heard from another person," said Lt. Paul Vance of the Connecticut State Police.

Police said they have made progress. In September, police searched a back yard on Farrell Road in Newtown, searching for the car Mary left behind. Though they won't give specifics on the case, but they said they are beginning to answer some lingering questions.

Anyone with information in Badaracco's disappearance was asked to contact the Western District Major Crime Unit at 1-800-376-1554. Police said tips could be anonymous. Connecticut State Police
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