Autopsy could determine if body is that of missing teenage girl,,, DAMN!

[SoCalDem]

This girl went missing from the same high school my son went to.. a very nice school in an upscale area...nothing particularly threatening in that area..except for whomever killed this poor girl..I hope they catch the creep..


http://www.latimes.com/news/la-missingteen21-m,0,7316876.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fmostviewed+%28L.A.+Times+-+Most+Viewed+Stories%29

By Phil Willon Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

July 21, 2010 | 8:24 a.m.

Authorities on Wednesday morning were set to perform an autopsy on the body that was found in a Moreno Valley field on Tuesday afternoon, just two miles from where a 17-year-old girl disappeared last week on her walk home from summer school. The body was too decomposed to determine the gender or identity, officials said. Investigators don't know how long the remains were in the field but say the recent heat wave likely accelerated decomposition.

Dental records and DNA tests also will be used to determine whether the remains are those of Norma Lopez, who authorities believe was abducted Thursday, triggering a massive search throughout central Riverside County. A local resident doing yard work found the body at around 3 p.m. about a mile south of the 60 Freeway, just off Theodore Street, on the eastern outskirts of the city in an area surrounded by wheat fields, horse ranches and jagged hills. The remains were found in tall grass near a line of trees but were otherwise not concealed, said Sgt. Joe Borja, a Sheriff's Department spokesman.

"I know you're all interested in finding out whether this is Norma Lopez or not, and honestly we do not know," Borja told reporters gathered several hundred yards from the crime scene Tuesday. "No matter which way it is, it's still a tragic event. There's someone out in the field who is dead."
Borja said police warned the Lopez family about the grim discovery, and they remained secluded in their Moreno Valley home.

Just hours before the body was found, Norma's mother and father appeared at a news conference at Moreno Valley City Hall and delivered an emotional plea for their daughter's safe return. "If someone has her or knows about her, please … just call. We just need to know about her," her father, Martin, said in Spanish. "It's destroying us. Every day that passes, every hour."
Norma was reported missing at about 12:30 p.m. Thursday by her older sister, Sonja, after she failed to return home from summer school. She was out of class at Valley View High School by 10 a.m. and had plans to meet her older sister and a friend, authorities said.

Investigators said they found some of Norma's belongings and signs of a struggle in a vacant field along Cottonwood Avenue. They also are looking for the driver and passengers of a newer-model green SUV seen near the dirt field at the time of her disappearance. After the body was found, deputies roped off the area and waited for coroner's officials to arrive and examine the remains. FBI investigators, assisting the Sheriff's Department in the case, also went to the scene. "It could take as short as one day to a week to determine who that person is," Borja said. Barin Butler, 44, owner of a horse ranch across the road from where the body was found, said he had been horseback riding around his property the day before and had not seen anything suspicious.

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[Nay]

1. I'd like to know how there could have been a "massive search" if

her body was found 2 miles away.

[SoCalDem]

2. It's pretty rugged in some areas ..looks a lot like this