Cold cases
to appeal to the public for new leads. This year, it will mark the occasion quietly.
According to sheriff ’s office accounts, Cynthia Moffett was killed during a robbery as she was closing up the golf course’s pro shop. She was 52 years old.
Investigators said one or more persons fled with $300 in wrapped coins after the murder.
Authorities are offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the case.
Speaking by telephone, Debbie Moffett described Cynthia as a forceful and outgoing personality.
“She was the boss,” Debbie said. “She wasn’t the oldest, but she was always in charge. If you sat in a restaurant and you were waiting for a cup of coffee, she would get up and get the coffee.”
Cynthia, a suburban Boca Raton resident, spent time volunteering at St. Jude Catholic Church in Boca Raton, teaching English to migrant workers. In 2005, after Hurricane Wilma knocked out power in the area, she used the pro shop’s gas power to cook for customers looking for a hot meal.
“She was a doer,” Debbie said. “She would do anything for anyone. Just ask. And even if you didn’t ask (she would offer help). That’s just who she was.”
Elias said that family and residents of her senior community in Palm Beach Gardens were planning to gather for a sabbath service Friday afternoon in her daughter’s honor.
Exactly one year after after Cynthia Moffett’s murder, investigators say Gorenberg
was killed following a shopping trip to Town Center at Boca Raton. Her body was dumped in the parking lot of the South County Civic Center west of Delray Beach, about 5 miles northwest.
A witness described hearing gunfire, then seeing a woman pushed out of the passenger side of a black MercedesBenz SUV. The SUV, later identified as Gorenberg’s, was found that afternoon in the parking lot of Home Depot near Atlantic Avenue and Jog Road.
Gorenberg, of suburban Boca Raton, was a wife and mother of two. Like Moffett, she was 52 years old the day she died.
Noting that Gorenberg’s purse and cellphone were taken, investigators have speculated that robbery is the likely motive for the murder.
Authorities are offering a $15,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in Gorenberg’s case.
PBSO marked the anniversary of Rachel Hurley’s murder Sunday by recapping the events of March 17, 1990, including posting a mini-documentary video about the case that it produced in 2019.
Rachel was a student at Jupiter Middle School who went boating with friends near the Jupiter Inlet that Saturday.
Concerned that she would be late in meeting her mother, Rachel left her group of friends at Dubois Park and sprinted toward Carlin Park, about a mile away on State Road A1A south of Indiantown Road.
Before she could reach her destination, the teen was was abducted and murdered, with someone leaving her partially clothed body in a wooded area, investigators said. Two men suspected to be involved were investigated but never charged