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Investigators have positively recognized the stays of a lady present in 1986 as Linda LeBeau, a lady reported lacking in Tustin in 1977. (Riverside County District Lawyer’s Workplace)
Investigators consider they've positively recognized the human stays discovered down an embankment in Lake Elsinore in 1986 as these of a lady who had been reported lacking to Tustin police in 1977, Riverside County District Lawyer’s workplace officers stated.
The stays had been discovered alongside Ortega Freeway by a Caltrans crew doing survey work, and had been reported to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Division. On the time, sheriff’s investigators decided the individual had been shot within the head, however couldn't establish the individual or any suspects on the time, a information launch stated.
In August 2021, the Chilly Case Murder Staff exhumed a number of stays in chilly case homicides and the stays present in 1986 had been amongst these despatched to a Division of Justice lab for potential DNA comparability.
Linda LeBeau, who was also called Linda Louise Durnall, was divorced and reported lacking to the Tustin Police Division by her boyfriend in 1977. On the time of her disappearance, she was 27 years outdated and police investigators weren't capable of resolve the case, a information launch stated.
The stays had been positively matched to LeBeau via a familial DNA match within the Division of Justice’s Lacking Unidentified Individuals database.
Tustin police have adopted a number of leads within the case, which has remained an open investigation.
The Regional Chilly Case Murder Staff is comprised of members of the DA’s Workplace Bureau of Investigation, the Riverside County Sheriff-Coroner Division, the FBI and the Riverside Police Division.