📺 VIDEO | The Perseverance Of Former Detective MOM Led To Fugitive’s Arrest In Daughter’s Killing

[ABCNEWS] A six-year long search for the suspect in the murder of a mother of two has ended, and authorities are crediting the victim’s own mother with solving the cold case.

The U.S. Marshals Service called Josephine Wentzel a “driving force” in the arrest late last month of Raymond Samuel McLeod Jr., who is accused of killing Wentzel’s daughter Krystal Mitchell in June 2016.

Wentzel is a retired police detective, but she said it was being a mother that drove her to spend the past six years helping investigators and pursuing various leads.

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[PEOPLE] Authorities in California are crediting the determination of a grieving mother with the recent arrest of a former Marine accused of murdering the woman’s 30-year-old daughter six years ago. During a press conference on Friday, the U.S. Marshalls Office said that it was Josephine Wentzel’s relentless quest for justice that led authorities to El Salvador, where Raymond McLeod was arrested on August 29. McLeod, 37, had been wanted on a murder charge in connection with the death of his girlfriend — Wentzel’s daughter, Krystal Mitchell.