Yale professor says she was raised by her mom's killer. It took 40 years for an arrest

Patrick Galvani has been charged with murder in the 1982 killing of his wife, Nancy.

The couple’s daughter, Alison Galvani, had long lobbied prosecutors to charge her father in the slaying.

For years, renowned epidemiologist Alison Galvani suspected that she spent part of her childhood raised by a killer.

But nothing the Bay Area native did — not the private investigator she hired, the relatives and detectives she spoke with, the research she did independently — convinced authorities there was sufficient evidence to arrest the man she believed responsible for the death of her mother, Nancy Galvani, in 1982.

That changed last week, when authorities took her father into custody.

The police department in Foster City, about 20 miles south of San Francisco, announced they arrested 81-yea