Florida kayaker’s grisly find identified as woman missing for decades – now cops hunt her killer

Human remains found by a kayaker in Florida have been identified as those of a 23-year-old woman who disappeared more than 40 years ago.Rose Marie Gayhart was reported missing in March 1985 by her parents, who lived in Dansville, New York.Before her disappearance, Gayhart was last known to be living and working in the Cape Coral and North Fort Myers area, according to the Cape Coral Police Department.TEEN FOUND IN SHALLOW CALIFORNIA VINEYARD GRAVE IDENTIFIED NEARLY 50 YEARS LATER AS FAMILY WARNS KILLERShe’d been living with her boyfriend, Robert Paddock, and his mother, Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers reported in a 2013 video aimed at drawing new attention to the cold case. She’d moved to the area just three months before her disappearance, Cape Coral Police Chief Anthony Sizemore told Fox News Digital.When Gayhart’s frequent letters and phone calls to her family "quickly stopped," they "had a gut feeling something was wrong," Crime Stoppers reported.