DNA led to the identification of Arminda Grangela Rodrigues da Silva Ribeiro decades after her death, and police hope her name will lead to new clues
Fifty years ago, two fishermen made a gruesome discovery along the Embarcadero near downtown San Diego. It was June 13, 1973, about 11:20 a.m., and the father and son were checking on their boat tied up near Laurel Street. They spotted an orange suitcase and a green plastic bag floating beneath a now-gone boardwalk. A woman's dismembered body was inside. Her torso and arms were in the suitcase. Her head was wrapped in the bag.
— home to a large Portuguese community, police have since learned. She was married, had two children and was working at a trailer fabrication company in Newark at the time of her death. It's unclear what connections she had in San Diego. When Ribeiro's body was found, investigators at the time wondered if her death was related to the mutilation deaths of four men found in Los Angeles and Orange counties whose bodies were also wrapped in plastic bag, according to news reports.
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