SHERMAN — Police executed a search warrant Wednesday at the last known address of Mary Badaracco, who vanished 27 years ago and authorities say is presumed to be a homicide victim.

State police arrived at 25 Wakeman Hill Road on Wednesday about 9 a.m. and left about 3:30 p.m., according to Connecticut State Police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance.

Badaracco’s daughters, Beth Profeta and Sherrie Passaro, have held annual vigils in Danbury for their mother. But no one has ever been charged in connection with her death.

“I just wish they would come clean. Only a monster would do this,” Profeta said Wednesday afternoon with Passaro at her side. “We need to bury our mother.

“But we’re thrilled with what the police are doing,” Profeta said. “We just keep praying that today, tonight, tomorrow could be the day this case breaks open. We know it’s going to happen.”

Vance said he wasn’t sure if state police had completed their search Wednesday or if they need to come back. Vance also said state police have always considered the Badaracco case open.

No one answered the door at the Sherman home when The News-Times knocked on it Wednesday seeking comment.

No further information was immediately available as to what state police were looking for or what they might have found.

A year ago, a single Superior Court judge, acting as the grand juror, had begun hearing testimony in a second-floor courtroom in state Superior Court in New Britain from anyone state police believe could shed light on the August 1984 disappearance of the 38-year-old housewife.

Badaracco’s body has never been found, and no arrests have been made in the case.

Under state law, investigative grand jury proceedings are conducted in secret. The law also requires that people considered to be targets of a grand jury be notified of their status.

According to one source with knowledge of the investigation, the targets are Dominic Badaracco Sr., the missing woman’s former husband, who last summer still lived in the Wakeman Hill Road home he once shared with her, and his son, Joseph, a former Hell’s Angel implicated years ago by an informant as having killed his stepmother at the behest of his father.

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