Cindy Wanner’s case became one of the most “heinous, notorious” cold cases the county has ever seen, Placer County officials said in a press conference Monday. 

After 34 years, officials have arrested a suspect accused of kidnapping and killing a doting mother in Northern California, the Placer County Sheriff’s Office announced this week, marking a major breakthrough in a gruesome cold case that’s haunted the community for decades.   

On Nov. 25, 1991, 35-year-old mother Cindy Wanner suddenly vanished from her home in Granite Bay, leaving behind her shoes, coat and car. When her family returned to the house and realized she was gone, they found her 11-month-old child unattended and crying in a high chair by the dining room table. There was no “rational explanation” for her disappearance, news outlets........

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