An 81-year-old San Francisco man charged with the murder of his estranged wife in 1982 has pleaded not guilty, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.
Patrick Galvani is currently being held without bail, Wagstaffe said, but has a bail hearing Feb. 5, and a preliminary hearing in the case March 6.
It’s the latest in a long-awaited update to a cold case that has long lacked the evidence to pursue charges. The body of Nancy Galvani was discovered in the Bay near the San Mateo Bridge several days after prosecutors believe her estranged husband, Patrick Galvani, murdered her in San Francisco on Aug. 8, 1982, Wagstaffe said previously.
Nancy had attended a party at her San Francisco apartment complex and then driven to meet Patrick, which is where prosecutors believe the murder occurred. Within days of that murder, prosecutors believe Patrick Galvani then dumped her body in the Bay, Wagstaffe said.
Charges were originally brought against Patrick in 1982, soon after the time of the murder, but dropped after a review found insufficient evidence to take the case to trial. Wagstaffe, who worked on the original case, declined to state why it was originally dismissed.
Nancy and Patrick Galvani’s daughter, Alison Galvani, has long been an advocate seeking justice for her mother and filed a wrongful death lawsuit against her father in 2010, she shared in a 2014 profile with the Los Angeles Times.
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