Man arrested six years after his wife’s remains were found in a crawlspace

A man in Southern California is facing murder charges in connection to his wife’s killing 20 years ago.

Jeff Anthony Maiorca, 53, was arrested Monday after local authorities in San Bernardino discovered the remains of Jill Maiorca hidden in the crawlspace beneath a home in Big Bear.

Jill Maiorca was reported missing from Big Bear Lake in 2007 and authorities now say she was murdered in November 2006, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. She was 29.

Authorities resumed their investigation into her disappearance on Oct. 28, 2020, when deputies from the Big Bear Sheriff’s Station responded to a call from someone who reported “a suspicious discovery in the crawlspace” under a residence, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release on Monday night. Upon arrival, they realize that hidden beneath the home were “unidentified human remains.”

An autopsy conducted on the remains determined the manner of death to be homicide.

In 2023, the remains were identified as those of Jill Maiorca following “additional investigative DNA analysis” after cold case homicide investigators took over the case, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. Her remains had long been concealed beneath the Big Bear house…

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