Police have already confirmed that it was the 17-year-old teenager Norma Lopez body that was discovered in the desert. Joseph Borja, Sheriff’s spokesperson stated on Wednesday that they identified the decayed body through the dental records. However, investigators wouldn’t release the reason of her death.
A resident who immediately called police found the body in bushes of trees near Theodore St. and Dracaea Avenue. Her decomposed body, without shirt and covered in jeans, was facing down in a grove of trees within the agricultural place on the Moreno Valley eastern border. Lopez disappeared on Thursday while walking back home from her summer class at the Valley View High School.
The detectives reveal that she was anticipated to meet her younger sister and friend at the house of the girl located at block 27000 of Cottonwood Avenue. Members of the family told the police that she commonly walked home from the school passing on Nason St. to Dracaea Ave. and then taking a shortcut passing a field south to Cottonwood Avenue.
The field, a popular neighborhood shortcut, is off a road, which is a dead-end at the base of boulder-studded cliffs cut with tracks.
Lopez family searched for almost 2-hours affirmed by Borja.
A latest model green SUV was noticed in the location where Norma disappeared.
According to Borja the SUV was not recognized as a suspected vehicle, yet they wanted to ask the driver in hopes of gathering additional data about the cases of Lopez’s disappearance. The FBI and the police have not yet identified a suspect as well as have requested the public for assistance in their investigation.
Borja stated, “We do have a few leads that we’re still following up … but I wouldn’t say that we’re any closer.” He added that it was concealed whether a stranger or a companion took Norma.
Norma’s boyfriend had been questioned many times and he was cooperative, Borja stated.[Source]
