The foster son of a Valley Center woman whose skeletal remains were found buried on her ranch earlier this year was ordered Tuesday to stand trial on nearly three dozen felony counts related to the alleged fraudulent use of the woman’s identity.

Cedric Von Ferdinand, 33, is accused of using 65-year-old Nadine Jett‘s identity to take hundreds of thousands of dollars from her bank account, give himself power of attorney, and transfer her properties to his name.

Von Ferdinand had been acting as a caregiver for Jett, a retired attorney who was battling pancreatic cancer just before she went missing around late 2023 to early 2024.

Her disappearance prompted sheriff’s investigators to search her 20-acre Oak Creek Road property in July, where they found her buried remains.

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