Human skull found in Panama could belong to missing California woman: police
Yvonne Baldelli, originally from Carlsbad, Calif., disappeared in 2011 after she moved to the country with then-boyfriend Brian Brimager. The retired marine maintains that Baldelli fled to Costa Rica with another man, but he is suspected of killing her.
Comments (1)BY NINA GOLGOWSKI / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 2013, 8:59 AM
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Yvonne Baldelli, 43, was last seen living in Panema with her then retired Marine boyfriend in 2011. A skull believed to have belonged to a woman was discovered Tuesday in the same island she was last seen.
A human skull discovered in a Panamanian jungle is suspected of belonging to a missing California woman who vanished from the island two years ago.
Yvonne Baldelli, 43, from Carlsbad was last seen with her retired Marine boyfriend in November 2011 at Isla Carenero, where the human remains were found Tuesday.
A local man came upon a "green military style" backpack discarded in the jungle in the Bocas del Toro region, according to local reports. When he opened it, he discovered a human skull and women's clothing.
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A local man came across the skull inside what's being described as a 'green military style' backpack hidden inside this jungle.
Police say the skull's size and shape indicate that the victim was most likely female. A DNA test is scheduled to be performed.
In September 2011, Baldelli moved to the island with her then boyfriend of two years Brian Brimager, 37, after she quit her job with Procter & Gamble for an easy life.
Ex-marine Brian Brimager, pictured with Baldelli here, told police that she ran off to Costa Rica with another man. In June he was arrested on charges of obstructing justice and making false statements to authorities.
He played guitar for tips and she sewed swimsuits.
Only two months later, after reports of him becoming physically violent with her, she vanished.
Brimager told police that she ran off to Costa Rica with another man. A little more than a week later, he moved back to Southern California and, only days later, married the mother of his daughter he had allegedly kept secret from Baldelli while they were dating.
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Prosecutors say that after Baldelli vanished Brimager penned emails to her family assuring them that she was OK and had moved to Costa Rica with a new man. They also say he traveled there to use her credit card.
An indictment filed against him in June detailed secret emails Brimager had allegedly exchanged with the woman before leaving Panama, and Baldelli, behind.
It also detailed grisly evidence that led to his arrest in June on charges of obstructing justice and making false statements to authorities.
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Also found inside the bag with the skull were women's clothing. After Baldelli's disappearance prosecutors say Brimager searched online how to clean a blood-stained mattress and sold a used machette online.
"He destroyed evidence, including a blood-stained mattress ... he made withdrawals from Ms. Baldelli's bank account on two separate occasions to make it appear as though she were still alive," Deputy Chief U.S. Attorney Hamilton Arendsen said.
He also sent emails to Baldelli's family from Costa Rica to further convince them that she was alive and well, according to the indictment.
Adding to prosecutors' shocking claims was his online sale of a used machete, in which he wrote in the ad: "Don't worry, I've only killed one person with it."
A San Diego judge ordered him held without bail while telling him that the evidence indicates "you have a very conniving, deceptive mind and would stop at almost nothing to cover your tracks.
"I believe at this point in time you are probably a desperate person," U-T San Diego reported.
Attending that court sentencing was his now wife, who gave birth to their second child this year.mlitr styl
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