California man charged with murder of ex-wife after remains found

<p>Authorities discovered a body hidden in a home’s crawlspace in 2020, 13 years after Jill Maiorca disappeared. A man has been charged in California with the murder of his ex-wife, six years after her remains were found in a crawlspace beneath a home and approximately two decades after she went missing, according to investigators.</p><p>Jeff Maiorca, 53, faces a charge of murder in the death of Jill Maiorca, who was 29 at the time of her death. Authorities indicated that this case may be one of the latest in the US to be resolved using modern DNA techniques.</p>