Apparently Nadine was suffering from cancer, and was living with a caretaker named Cedric Von Ferdinand - her foster son.
The attorney's foster son Cedric Von Ferdinand had been acting as her caretaker, according to her foster daughters
via daily mail:
Over the next months Von Ferdinand told the Lucci sisters, who are quadruplets, that Jett was too ill to speak with them, the sisters said.
He then reportedly informed the sisters that the retired family law attorney died last Easter in Mexico, where he said her remains were cremated.
Concerned by the lack of answers and a death certificate, the Lucci sisters reported Jett missing about a year ago.
In July, police served a warrant at Jett's property and found her decomposed remains. Investigators confirmed their finding on Thursday.
Meanwhile Von Ferdinand was charged in March with 17 felony crimes relating to claims that he tried to forge Jett's signature to steal her ranch, reported by Fox San Diego.
Notary Raymond Joseph Alto was also charged in connection to the alleged crimes.
The gruesome finding came after realtor Noel Lawton alerted authorities that Von Ferdinand was trying to sell the ranch without providing Jett's death certificate.
'I saw what was on the tax rolls, the preliminary title report, and he was named as the owner,' Lawton told Fox.
'But he couldn’t produce a death certificate, and that started raising red flags with me, escrow and title.'
Von Ferdinand had requested that the property's new owner plant a rose garden in Jett's memory, Lawton said.
Jett's remains are believed to have been found in the same spot where her foster son wanted the garden, Fox reported.
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