AID SOUGHT IN SOLVING SLAYING.

Byline: Jaxon Van Derbeken Daily News Staff Writer

Police are asking the public to help in solving the slaying of a pregnant Van Nuys woman who was found burned to death in Panorama City.

Denna R. Moody, 39, carrying her sixth child, was found in a burned-out car in the 14700 block of Arminta Street on Friday evening.

Investigators arrested Moody's former boyfriend, Alfred Smith, 41, of New Orleans, on Sunday. They said Smith was the last person to see her alive and had flown to Los Angeles to meet her.

``He came all the way from New Orleans to talk to her about her pregnancy,'' said Los Angeles police Detective Steve Fisk of the Van Nuys Division. ``She went to meet with him. . . . Now she and the unborn child are dead.''

Her body was found in a silver 1996 Ford station wagon that was parked a quarter-mile from her apartment.

Smith was released Tuesday after the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office decided not to file charges against him because there was not enough evidence.

Fisk said the District Attorney's Office wanted an eyewitness.

Moody, a single mother, recently got a job at the Old Navy store in the Fallbrook Mall in West Hills. She had also worked for Ross Dress for Less at Riverside Drive and Woodman Avenue.

``We're going to pursue the investigation until we find enough evidence to arrest somebody and convict them,'' Fisk said.

Yolanda Lytle, a friend of Moody's, said she had lost ``a best friend of 28 years. She was a very good person; everybody who knew her loved her.''

Lytle said Smith and Moody had been together off and on for about seven to eight years.

Deputy District Attorney Alan Yochelson refused to comment because he said the matter remains under investigation. Anyone with information can contact Van Nuys detectives at [phone].