I saw this case on unsolved mysteries and it really gave me the creeps. If any of you saw the Monika Rizzo case please let me know what you think. Here is a copy of a detective report from 1997 when it happened and a news story updating it. If anyone wants to comment please do. Detective Report: Affidavit for search warrant Filed July 15, 1997 Case number: 97-W-0273 144th District Court of Bexar County THE UNDERSIGNED AFFIANT, BEING A PEACE OFFICER UNDER THE LAWS OF STATE OF TEXAS AND BEING DULY SWORN, ON OATH, MAKES THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS AND ACCUSATIONS: 1. THERE IS, IN BEXAR COUNTY, A PERSON KNOWN AS LEONARD RIZZO Jr., DATE OF BIRTH 02/02/75. SAID PERSON IS CURRENTLY AT LARGE AND RESIDES AT 5335 N.W. LOOP 410 #1218, SAN ANTONIO, BEXAR COUNTY, TEXAS. 2. IT IS THE BELIEF OF YOUR AFFIANT THAT THE OFFENSE OF MURDER IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 19-02 OF THE PENAL CODE OF STATE OF TEXAS, WAS COMMITTED BETWEEN THE DATES OF MAY 5, AND JULY 4, 1997, IN ANTONIO, BEXAR COUNTY, TEXAS. 3. YOUR AFFIANT HAS PROBABLE CAUSE FOR SAID BELIEF BY REASON OF THE FOLLOWING FACTS: Your Affiant has read the Preliminary Investigation Report of Officer R. HERRERA, badge number 2057, dated June 5, 1997, and reported under SAPD case number 97/335413. In his report, Off. HERRERA reports that he was contacted by LEONARD RIZZO Jr. in regards to his missing mother, MONIKA RIZZO, a female born on January 22, 1953 and who resides with LEONARD RIZZO Sr. at 4454 Forestgreen. It was reported that MONIKA RIZZO had departed her place of employment on May 5, 1997, leaving her purse and has not been seen since. Your Affiant has spoken to Det. J. HOLGUIN with the SAPD Homicide Office. Det. HOLGUIN informed Your Affiant that on 07/04/97, a phone call was made to the SAPD Homicide Unit reporting human remains were in the back yard of 4454 Forestgreen. Det. HOLGUIN drove to 4454 Forestgreen and contacted LEONARD RIZZO Jr. who informed Det. HOLGUIN that he had the authority to oversee 4454 Forestgreen in the absence of his father LEONARD RIZZO Sr. LEONARD RIZZO Jr. signed a consent to search the premises at 4454 Forestgreen and during the ensuing search, human bones, hair, and body fluids were located. Also during a search of the residence, a hole in the sheetrock wall with blood on the hole was located in living room of the residence near the garage door. Det. H. ESCOBAR has obtained a sworn statement from a witness in this case identified as ROBERT HAKALA. HAKALA is friends with both MONIKA and LEONARD RIZZO Sr. and has known them for some time. HAKALA stated sometime around the end of May or beginning of June he went to 4454 Forestgreen and spoke to both MONIKA and LEONARD RIZZO Sr. About three days after speaking to MONIKA and LEONARD Sr., HAKALA returned to the residence and smelled a strong odor that he associated with a dead animal. HAKALA then observed a small dog in the yard of 4454 Forestgreen playing with what appeared to be a human jawbone. When he exainined the bone, he saw the front lower teeth on the jawbone overlapped and stated he "knew that Lenny had killed Monika because I remember seeing Monika's front lower teeth and they were over lapping just like the teeth on the jaw bone." HAKALA left the location but returned the following day and while walking around the yard, "saw what appeared to be a body under a blanket...with tires on top of it." On July 4, 1997, Det. J. HOLGUIN conducted an interview with LEONARD RIZZO Sr. This interview was conducted after LEONARD placed a call to the police department and agreed to voluntarily come to the police station to be interviewed. During this interview, after being told by Det. Holguin that the circumstances known to Det. HOLGUlN at that time surrounding the possible death of MONIKA RIZZO, did not appear to constitute CAPITAL MURDER, LEONARD RIZZO SR. made the oral statement, "maybe I ought to go kill somebody else." On July 7, 1997, Your Affiant obtained a search varrant issued by the 226th District Court, writ number 97-W-025S2. for 4454 Forestgreen which was executed July 7, 1997. Your Affiant has read the Crime Scene Search report of Det. R. GARCIA, badge number 2207, dated 07/07/97 under SAPD case number 97/335413. Det. GARCIA assisted in executing the search warrant for 4454 Forestgreen on 07/07/97. In his report, Det. GARCIA indicates he collected what appeared to be blood samples from several areas of the residence. It is believed that these samples belong to MONIKA and/or ZEONARD RIZZO Sr. An examination of the premises of 4454 Forestgreen indicates a violent struggle occurred inside the residence of 4454 Forestgreen causing a bleeding injury to MONIKA and/or LEONARD RIZZO Sr. Your Affiant believes the identification of the source of the blood samples obtained during a search of 4454 Forestgreen is crucial to the establishment of the criminal offense of murder and that said blood samples constitute evidence of the criminal offense of murder. Further, the evidence sought in this affidavit and warrant, is necessary in the identification of the human remains located at 4454 Forestgreen. PSA JIM CARUSO has spoken to Microbiologist Judy Floyd with GeneScreen Labs Inc, Dallas, Texas, who has informed CARUSO that a Reverse Paternal DNA test, involving the analysis of blood samples from the recovered remains, LEONARD RIZZO Sr. and theoffspring of MONIKA and LEONARD RIZZO Sr., specifically LEONARD RIZZO Jr., will produce result as accurate as 99% in identifying the human remains as MONIKA RIZZO. 4. YOUR AFFIANT HAS REASON TO BELIEVE, AND DOES BELIEVE. THAT THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF MURDER, IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 19.02 OF THE TEXAS PENAL CODE OCCURED BETWEEN THE DATES OF MAY 5, 1997 AND 4, 1997 IN SAN ANTONIO, BEXAR COUNTY, TEXAS, AND THAT TWO PURPLE TOPPED VIALS OF BLOOD TAKEN FROM LEONARD RIZZO Jr. AND COMPARED TO THE EVIDENCE COLLECTED FROM THE HUMAN REMAINS RECOVERED 4454 FORESTGREEN WILL CONSTITUTE EVIDENCE THAT THE OFFENSE OF MURDER WAS COMMITTED AND WILL POSITIVELY IDENTIFY THE REMAINS RECOVERED AT 4454 FORESTGREEN AS THOSE OF MONIKA RIZZO. 5. YOUR AFFIANT FURTHER BELIEVES THAT THE SPECIFIC OFFENSE OF MURDER HAS BEEN COMMITTED AND THAT THE ITEMS DESCRIBED ABOVE, CONSTITUTING EVIDENCE TO BE SEARCEED FOR AND SEIZED, IS LOCATED ON OR IN THE BODY OF THE DESCRIBED DEFENDANT, LEONARD RIZZO Jr. WHEREFORE, Your Affiant asks for an issuance of a Warrant that will authorize the seizure of the said person in a search of the said defendant by medically qualified personnel, and the seizure of the above described evidence. Respectfully Submitted, DETECTIVE THOMAS MATJEKA SAN ANTONIO POLICE DEPARTMENT AFFIANT SWORN TO, and subscribed before me in person this 15th day of July, 1997, at3:44 p.m. 144th DISTRICT COURT JUDGE BEXAR COUNTY, TEXAS. News Story: Experts identify bones as Rizzo 's Remains from 3 others also found in back yard By Brenda Rodriguez and Marty Sabota Express-News Staff Writers Bone fragments found behind a Southeast Side home earlier this month belong to Monika Rizzo - reported missing three months ago - and three other people, police said Thursday. "The focus of the investigation now is to identify the other people," Deputy Police Chief Albert Ortiz said at a Thursday afternoon news conference. Detectives interviewed Monika Rizzo 's parents, Bill and Monika McKinney, and her husband, Leonard Rizzo , but said they were no closer to identifying a suspect in her disappearance than they were when she was last seen May 27. Leonard Rizzo , who has not been arrested nor charged with any crime, remains a suspect in the case, Ortiz said. "It was a homicide, but we have to prove that. We don't have any indication that they (homicides) may have been committed inside the house. We just don't know," Ortiz said. Earlier DNA tests did not produce a match between Monika Rizzo and bone fragments found in the Rizzos ' yard. The results announced Thursday stem from a second search conducted by archaeologists. "Everyone is a suspect," he added. "We are looking at friends and associates of the Rizzos . This was probably not random. To me, this had to do with someone they associated with ... this was calculated." A man who identified himself as Leonard Rizzo 's son was contacted by phone at the Rizzo home Thursday but declined to talk with a reporter. "I was about to leave," the man said. "I can't talk now." Leonard Rizzo would not comment on the latest developments in his wife's disappearance. His attorney, Bruce Smith of Beaumont, did not return phone calls. News of the DNA match jolted the missing woman's parents. Monika McKinney said she was at home and her husband was playing golf when the police called at about 11:30 a.m. Thursday. "My stomach just flopped," she said while nervously smoking at a kitchen table in her home. During an interview with the San Antonio Express-News, at least 15 messages from the media were left on her answering machine. Officers earlier told her and her husband "they found part of her leg and it matched, but not 100 percent." The couple said they didn't need DNA tests to be 100 percent accurate to convince them of what they already believed: that their daughter was dead. "Our hope was down to 10 percent, but now it's down to zero," Monika McKinney said. "Until now, I'd hoped they'd find Monika (alive) and I could hug her." Bill McKinney, who turns 65 today, said he and his wife believed they were prepared to hear what they already suspected. But, he added, the outcome of the test results was "like a hard hit in the chest." "When you hear it, 'bong,' you fall apart real quick," he said. A month after Monika Rizzo was reported missing, an anonymous caller informed police there was a body buried in the back yard of the Rizzo home. Shortly after July 4, police found a human skull and chopped-up bone fragments at the Rizzo home. Two garbage bags with human tissue and animal remains also were found. DNA tests performed at the time by GeneScreen Labs Inc. in Dallas indicated the bones could belong to up to three people, but Monika Rizzo was not one of them. But on Aug. 1, police called the UTSA team to begin a weeklong excavation of the half-acre yard. Archaeologists unearthed more bones, which were sent for more DNA tests to the Dallas lab. Among the bones were fragments that were identified as those of 44-year-old Monika Rizzo . Reverse DNA testing - DNA taken from her husband and one of her two sons to determine her DNA profile - was used to make the match. The other bones found at the home cannot be identified until investigators have DNA samples for comparisons, police said. But while officials still are searching for clues to the bizarre case, Monika Rizzo 's parents already are preparing for a trial and conviction. "We're going to have a front-row seat, and I'm going to stare at him in the eyes as hard as I can," Monika McKinney said of whomever is charged in her daughter's death. Although no plans have been made, McKinney said she would like to have a memorial service in a church for her daughter. Friday, Aug 29, 1997