3/29/13 - Three decades later, the Livingston County Sheriffâs Department and investigators with its Cold Case Team have not given up on solving the murder of Christina Castiglione. Today marks the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the missing 19-year-old womanâs body in the area of Fisher and Fawcett Roads near Cohoctah in 1983. Since then, no suspects have been arrested and the murder was never solved. Sheriff Bob Bezotte says theyâre still pursuing the case and any leads that come in but as time passes, new information is getting harder to come by but authorities have always felt the man who found Castiglioneâs body was involved. Ron Latilla reported the crime but quickly became a suspect. Bezotte says Latilla was supposed to go work but said he decided to go fishing and then changed his mind to go look for deer in the area where the body was found. Bezotte says he had no fishing equipment or a rifle and had parked in an area designated for commuters that few people utilized back then. Bezotte says a DNA test has since shown that he is not a match for material found on the body, but he remains very suspicious of why Latilla was in the area and maybe knew more than what he said, adding he was uncooperative with police and refused to take any polygraph tests. Police still suspect Latilla or his brother may have played a part in her death as Latillaâs brother lived close to the place where Castiglione was last seen. Bezotte says their cold case team was established four years ago and investigators are still actively working a number of cases but they also rely on information from the public and are always hopeful that something will one day lead to a break in the unsolved murder. (JM)
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