BODY MAY BE BURBANK WOMAN POLICE FIND CAR, CORPSE IN CHINATOWN.Byline: Naush Boghossian and Jason Kandel Staff Writers A body believed to be that of a missing Burbank woman, Sharon Santos, was discovered in the trunk of her car near Chinatown on Thursday, 16 days after the Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . financial analyst vanished. Burbank police discovered the 30-year-old woman's black Honda Accord The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. at 12:30 p.m. on New Depot Street near Bunker Hill Bunker Hill “Don’t shoot until you see the whites of their eyes”; American Revolutionary battle (1775). [Am. Hist.: Worth, 22] See : Battle Avenue shortly after the car was ticketed for blocking a street sweeper. The ticket was fed into a database, which alerted authorities that the vehicle belonged to Santos. The discovery capped a massive search for the woman that stretched across Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, . ``It's just saddening. The tenacity of these investigators who have been on the scene since day one has been amazing, and to have it end this way is very difficult for them,'' Burbank police Sgt. Jay Jette said. ``But being the professionals that they are, they will take this as the next step, and now it's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a to focus on how, who and why and to capture these individuals or individual who's responsible for this.'' At the Santos family home on Petunia petunia, any plant of the genus Petunia, South American herbs of the family Solanaceae (nightshade family). The common garden petunias, planted also in window boxes, are all considered hybrids of white-flowered and violet-flowered species from Argentina. Street in West Covina, a stream of friends and relatives poured into the house to comfort Santos' mother, Edna, her sister, Sandy, and others. Family members were devastated dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. by the news. ``I can't talk right now. I'm sorry,'' said sister Sandra Santos, who could barely speak. Friends who had hoped to learn good news instead took down a Web site they had created to help find their beloved friend. ``This morning I had a glimmer of hope that something good was going to happen. It was just a feeling I got. So at this point I think I'm even more shocked,'' said Santos' friend, Nina Haynes. ``To get this news is just devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. . We don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what to do.'' While family members grieved, detectives from Burbank and a bloodhound bloodhound, breed of large hound whose ancestors were known in the Mediterranean region before the Christian era. It stands about 25 in. (63.5 cm) high at the shoulder and weighs between 80 and 110 lb (36.3–49.9 kg). attempted to track Santos' movements through the streets of Chinatown. They determined that Santos' car had been parked on the street for several days. Police could not say how Santos was killed, although there were no obvious signs of trauma. The Accord, with the body still inside, was towed to the coroner's forensics See computer forensics. science center in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or where officials will determine the cause of death. Police remained baffled by the motive and had not identified a killer by late Thursday. They have interviewed and reinterviewed all of Sharon's acquaintances, even a man she dated five years ago who is currently living in the Midwest. ``We're leaving no stone unturned,'' Jette said. Santos was last seen by co-workers leaving Warner Bros. in Burbank the evening of Aug. 17. Police believe she returned to her apartment in the 1500 block of Scott Road, where they also found her purse, wallet and credit cards. The disappearance spurred the Burbank community into action, and police established a 24-hour hotline for information about the case. More than 100 of her friends posted fliers and handed out ribbons. Warner Bros., where Santos worked for six months in the international television division, initially posted a $25,000 reward for information leading to her safe return but now are offering the reward for the arrest and conviction of the killer. ``We are greatly saddened by the news of Sharon's tragic death. During her brief career at Warner Bros. she endeared herself as both a respected colleague and a good person,'' Warner Bros. Entertainment spokesman Scott Rowe said. ``We now offer our condolences to her family and friends as well as our sincere gratitude to the hundreds of law enforcement officials and citizens who aided in the search for Sharon these past couple of weeks.'' Burbank has had 38 adult missing person cases this year, and Santos is the first to be discovered dead. Staff Writer Karen Rubin contributed to this story. Naush Boghossian, (818) 546-3306 naush.boghossian(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 2 photos, map Photo: (1) Burbank investigators look over the car belonging to Sharon Santos, who vanished Aug. 17. The car was found in Chinatown on Thursday with a body believed to be Santos' in the trunk. (2) Investigators search for clues near the location where the car belonging to a missing Burbank woman was found. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News Map: Woman's body found Gregg Miller/Staff Artist |
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