PALMDALE WOMAN'S REMAINS IDENTIFIED LAZAREVIC'S BODY WAS IN KERN COUNTY.Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer PALMDALE - A body found near a mountain highway has been identified as that of a 67-year-old Palmdale woman who disappeared Aug. 25. The body was found Sept. 8 near Highway 178 east of Lake Isabella Lake Isabella is a man-made earthen reservoir in Kern County, California that consists of a main and auxiliary dam. It was formed in 1953 when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dammed the Kern River at the junction of its two forks at Whiskey Flat. - by an elderly couple collecting aluminum cans - but Kern County Coroner's investigators were not able to identify it as the remains of Nada Lazarevic until Monday. Lazarevic's son-in-law has been in jail for three weeks on suspicion of murdering her. ``As close as we can get to a cause of death is that there was severe trauma to the body and the mode of death was homicide,'' said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. homicide investigator Danny Smith Danny Smith may refer to:
The badly decomposed de·com·pose v. de·com·posed, de·com·pos·ing, de·com·pos·es v.tr. 1. To separate into components or basic elements. 2. To cause to rot. v.intr. 1. body was found off the highway, beneath a 20- to 30-foot embankment covered by sagebrush sagebrush, name for several species of Artemisia, deciduous shrubs of the family Asteraceae (aster family), particularly abundant in arid regions of W North America. The common sagebrush (A. and bushes. The couple who spotted it had been picking up aluminum cans along the upper edge of the embankment. They called Kern County sheriff's deputies. Coroner's investigators were searching missing-persons records when they happened across Lazarevic's report from Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County. Los Angeles County homicide investigators had already obtained her dental records so coroner's officials sent for them and made the match. Lazarevic had been reported missing by one of her two adult daughters Aug. 28, three days after she was last seen by a neighbor driving away from home. Investigators said Lazarevic had reportedly said she intended to discuss money she was owed by another daughter and the daughter's husband, Ken Walker. Investigators spent days searching Antelope Valley streets and the desert looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. her car. It finally turned up Sept. 11 parked near Yucca Avenue and Jackman Street in Lancaster. Detectives said undisclosed evidence found in the car linked Walker to the disappearance. He was arrested Sept. 12 on suspicion of murder. Prosecutors charged him with murder for financial gain, which makes him eligible for life in prison without possibility of parole or for the death penalty if he is convicted. Walker was already facing trial on suspicion of spousal and child abuse when he was arrested. A second autopsy will likely be conducted to try to determine the exact cause of Lazarevic's death, officials said. |
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