Truth After Time: Joseph DiMare’s 1961 Murder Resolved as Wife’s Guilt Surfaces Four Decades Later
Francis DiMare died before she could face any charges of murder
It was on March 24, 1961, when Miami PD was called to the scene of what was believed to be a carjacking.
The alleged victim who called, thirty-three-year-old Francis DiMare, claimed that while she and her husband, fifty-three-year-old Joseph DiMare, were on their way to dinner, two men had jumped into their vehicle while they were at a red light and forced them to drive to an empty lot nearby.
She claimed that the men had guns and had pistol-whipped her, and she was knocked unconscious. When she came to, she saw that her husband had been killed in the driver’s seat. She claimed that when she realized her husband was dead, she ran barefoot to the nearest gas station to call the police.
When law enforcement arrived, they found the vehicle with Joseph inside, shot once in the temple. Francis hadn’t been hurt in the attack. In fact, she was completely clean despite being in close quarters with someone who was shot. She had been found barefoot but had no scrapes or cuts on the bottom of her feet, which was unusual for someone claiming to have sprinted barefoot on concrete, gravel, and dirt. Her sneakers…
