California nurse who vanished in 1986 — Arrest shocks community

Patricia Colleen Murphy was a 26-year-old nurse at Riverside General Hospital in California. On October 17, 1986, she vanished without a trace after finishing her evening shift. Her car was found abandoned. Her purse was untouched. But Patricia was gone.

For 37 years, her family waited for answers. Her mother Eleanor never stopped hoping. Her best friend Donna never stopped searching. The case went cold, and the world moved on.

Then in 2023, a dying man made a shocking confession from his hospice bed.

Gerald Thomas Whitfield, a former hospital maintenance worker, revealed everything — where he buried her, how he took her, and why he stayed silent for nearly four decades. Hospice nurse Angela Reyes faced an impossible choice: stay silent or break confidentiality to bring justice to a grieving family.

She made the call that changed everything.

This is the true story of Patricia Murphy, the California nurse who vanished in 1986, and the arrest that shocked an entire community almost 40 years later.

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