Yale professor says she was raised by her mom’s killer. It took 43 years for an arrest

By Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times (TNS)

For years, renowned epidemiologist Alison Galvani suspected that she had 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-year-old Patrick Galvani without incident.

The San Mateo district attorney’s office charged him with murder Tuesday. He is in custody in the Magu