Wife finds husband’s body with phone app in San Mateo 
 
 Photo: Paul Chinn, The Chronicle CHP patrol car in San Francisco, Calif. on Wednesday, June 26, 2014. 
 
 The wife of a missing Pacifica man found his body before authorities did. 
 
 She used a find-my-phone application Saturday to trace her husband to a patch of dirt in San Mateo, where investigators believe his Mercedes fell some 30 feet off an elevated ramp at the interchange of Highway 101 and Highway 92 and lay crushed by the fall, according to the California Highway Patrol. 
 
 Jayesh Patel, 49, had been reported missing by his wife to local police after he didn’t come home Friday night, said Officer Art Montiel, a spokesman for the CHP’s Redwood City division. 
 
 Using the phone app, Patel’s wife traced her husband’s phone to the highway interchange, where she came across the crumpled car and alerted authorities around noon Saturday, Montiel said. 
 
 She was at the scene when CHP officers arrived, he said. First-responders had to use the “jaws of life” to tear off the doors and remove Patel’s body, he said. 
 
 It’s not clear what caused Patel, who was driving on the eastbound Highway 92 connector ramp to northbound Highway 101, to lose control of the Mercedes, slamming into the concrete barrier lining the elevated ramp hard enough to vault the car over it, Montiel said. 
 
 Investigators believe the crash occurred sometime after 10 p.m. Friday — and perhaps early Saturday morning — but no one came across the crash until Patel’s wife did. 
 
 Michael Bodley is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: mbodley@sfchronicle.com. Twitter: @michael_bodley ||||| SAN MATEO — The desperate wife of a missing Pacifica man found his body when she followed a find-my-phone application to the spot where his car had flipped off an elevated ramp at the interchange of Highway 101 and state Highway 92. 
 
 Jayesh Patel, 49, died late Friday or early Saturday after the Mercedes he was driving careened off Highway 92 and plummeted to a field below, the California Highway Patrol reported. 
 
 Patel’s wife called emergency responders around noon Saturday upon finding his car underneath the San Mateo interchange, said CHP spokesman Arturo Montiel. 
 
 She had filed a missing persons report with Pacifica police after her husband didn’t come home Friday night. She then used an app to “ping” his cell phone, Montiel said. 
 
 Once the app traced the phone to the highway interchange, she drove there, discovered the car and alerted the CHP. She was at the scene when officers arrived, Montiel said. 
 
 Officers believe the crash occurred sometime after 10 p.m. Friday. Evidence indicates the Mercedes was traveling east on Highway 92 and heading toward northbound 101. For still-unknown reasons, the car collided with a concrete barrier on the east side of the connector ramp and was propelled over the top. 
 
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 The car fell about 30 feet onto a patch of dirt below, not far from a parking lot behind a building at 1900 S. Norfolk St., east of Highway 101. 
 
 The sedan was found right-side-up, but was so crushed that emergency responders used the Jaws of Life to tear off the doors and extract the driver’s body, Montiel said. 
 
 The CHP is investigating the collision and has not determined whether drugs or alcohol were a factor. 
 
 Anyone with information about the collision may contact Officer Karl Steinkraus at 650-369-6261. ||||| Image copyright Family photo Image caption Jessica Patel was found dead in the living room of the couple's home 
 
 A pharmacist who murdered his wife with a Tesco carrier bag so he could start a new life with his boyfriend has been jailed for a minimum of 30 years. 
 
 Mitesh Patel, 37, strangled and suffocated Jessica, 34, and then staged a burglary at the couple's home in Middlesbrough on 14 May. 
 
 Jurors heard he had planned to claim a £2m life insurance payout and move to Australia with his lover Dr Amit Patel. 
 
 Patel was sentenced to life and told he would serve a minimum of 30 years. 
 
 Sentencing Patel, Mr Justice Goss told him: "You have no remorse for your actions. Any pity you have is for yourself." 
 
 He told the defendant that Mrs Patel "clearly loved you and was a dutiful wife" of nine years, adding: "She wanted nothing more than to have children and live a normal family life. 
 
 Image copyright Cleveland Police Image caption Mitesh Patel (left) was planning to move to Australia to be with his boyfriend Dr Amit Patel 
 
 "The difficulty is that you had no sexual attraction to her; you were attracted to men." 
 
 He said Mrs Patel was to some extent aware of her husband's sexuality and was "lonely, often upset and controlled by you". 
 
 The judge said Patel's messages revealed him to be "needy and callous" and he used Mrs Patel "whilst indulging your own desires and whims". 
 
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Grindr cheat Mitesh Patel calls 999 after wife murder 
 
 The two-week trial at Teesside Crown Court heard Patel, who ran a pharmacy on Roman Road with his 34-year-old wife, had a series of affairs with men he met via the dating app Grindr. 
 
 Patel, who claimed his wife was his "best mate", injected her with insulin before strangling and suffocating her with the bag at their home on The Avenue. 
 
 'Rot in hell' 
 
 He then bound her with duct tape and ransacked the house in an attempt to blame burglars for her death. 
 
 Prosecutor Nicholas Campbell QC said: "The prosecution case was that a plastic shopping bag, ironically a Tesco Bag For Life, was used both as a ligature and to suffocate her." 
 
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Mitesh Patel tried to hide this CCTV footage which showed him after he killed his wife 
 
 Reading a statement on behalf of Mrs Patel's sisters and cousins, her younger sister Divya told the court: "The one thing we hope and prayed for above anything else was that in her final moments she did not suffer. 
 
 "The cruel reality is that she did in fact suffer, she knew exactly who her killer was, and he mercilessly ignored her attempts to fight for her own life as he ended it. 
 
 "We can only imagine the fear and panic she must have felt knowing herself this was it. Thinking of that moment makes our hearts so heavy." 
 
 Ms Patel also addressed her brother-in-law in the dock, saying: "We do not just pray, we know, she will be free from you for ever. As will she rest in heaven, you will rot in hell." 
 
 She added: "He could've divorced her, taken everything he wanted - he did not need to take her life, he had no right to take this evil, cruel and malicious step." 
 
 Image copyright Cleveland Police Image caption The house was ransacked to make it look as if there had been a burglary 
 
 Patel told his boyfriend he married Mrs Patel because she was in love with him and would provide a cover for his true sexuality. 
 
 He wanted to move to Australia to be with Dr Patel and the pair had planned to raise a child conceived by Mrs Patel through IVF. 
 
 She had undergone three courses of IVF and the last cycle resulted in three embryos being created, but she was murdered before they could be implanted.
– A California woman's phone led her to her missing husband's body before the authorities could find him. The San Francisco Chronicle reports the unnamed woman reported her husband, 49-year-old Jayesh Patel, missing when he didn't come home Friday. Using a find-my-phone app, Patel's wife traced him to a field behind a building in San Mateo where she found his Mercedes about noon Saturday, according to the Mercury News. It was crushed with Patel inside. She called the police, and authorities had to use the jaws of life to extract Patel from the car. He was pronounced dead at the scene, CBS San Francisco reports. Authorities say Patel's car fell 30 feet off a highway interchange sometime after 10pm Friday. It's unclear what caused the crash; the Mercedes had to have hit a concrete barrier hard enough to jump it. It's also unclear whether drugs or alcohol played a part. Patel's car was sitting in the field for up to 14 hours before his wife found it. (This man placed a 911 call three years ago—then vanished.)