Cops: Woman Drove Around With Body for Months

MUMMIFIED BODY IN CAR IDENTIFIED
(COSTA MESA, CA) -- The Orange County Coroner’s office says it has identified a mummified corpse that was left in a car's passenger seat for 10 months in Southern California, according to police.

Earlier it had been estimated it could take weeks to identify what is believed to be the body of homeless woman because the remains were virtually just skin and bones and weighed some 30 pounds.

However the coroner’s office says it was able to rehydrate (restore water and/or other liquids) the body's bone-dry fingertips to obtain a usable fingerprint.

The coroner’s office will not release the name of the person until next-of-kin are notified, said police. So far police have this information on the body told by the owner of the car:

The dried remains were found Monday in a car parked illegally. The driver is said to be a 57-year-old former real estate agent from an upscale beach community, who herself had fallen on hard times and was living with friends.

The driver told authorities she befriended the homeless woman in a park in nearby Fountain Valley and told her she could sleep in the car. When the driver found the woman dead in the passenger seat, she was afraid to tell police, she said.

Police have not determined if the as yet unidentified driver will face any charges in the case.

The driver of the car said she last saw the homeless woman alive in December, but it was not clear when the driver discovered the body. The driver had placed a box of baking soda in the car to mask the smell and covered the body with a blanket and some clothes, said police.

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Cops: Woman Drove Around With Body for Months
AP News- Police said Thursday they are conducting an investigation after discovering that a Southern California woman drove around, possibly for months, with the body of a homeless woman in her passenger seat.

Officers with the Costa Mesa police found the unidentified body on Monday after getting a call about a car partially blocking a driveway, Sgt. Ed Everett told The Orange County Register.

When officers arrived, they noticed a stench and saw a leg poking out from a blanket, he said.

The body was partially mummified and an autopsy found no signs of foul play.

The woman driving the car told police she let a homeless woman sleep in her car but the woman died in her car and she was afraid to go to the police, Everett said. The woman who drives the car, whose identity was withheld by police, told officers she had last seen the woman alive in December.

Because of the advanced state of decomposition, officials believe the woman had been dead anywhere from three to 10 months, Everett said.

Police also found a box of baking soda in the car, which the driver had used to try to cover up the smell.

The dead woman is believed to be from Fountain Valley and is in her 50s or 60s, authorities said.

Eww...The Cow That Would NOT Die..

Stuff.co.nz- "A prominent central North Island farmer and his farm manager have been found guilty of ill treating a cow, which was shot and then impaled still alive on a tractor fork... Frew said he was horrified when he removed the cow from the forks and it stood up and staggered off to join a herd of cattle nearby. The cow was shot again but refused to die." (Read article)

Police: Mom With Kid Robbed Wendy's

Cocoa is where we used to stay in Florida, so I'm wondering if I've ever been to that Wendy's location, lol..

ROCKLEDGE, Fla. -- A woman robbed a Brevard County fast-food restaurant's drive-through window at gunpoint with her 3-year-old daughter in the back seat, and she was arrested after a high-speed chase, police said.

Miranda Marie Peters-Ortiz faces charges of armed robbery, fleeing and eluding, child abuse and possession of cocaine, after she allegedly stole about $600 from a Wendy's in Cocoa.

According to Cocoa police, Peters-Ortiz pulled up to the drive-through window of the Wendy's located on U.S. Highway 1 just after midnight Thursday. Peters-Ortiz, who was armed with a handgun, stole some money and drove off, police said.

A high-speed chase ensued, and it ended in Rockledge after officers used stop sticks on her vehicle, police said.

According to Cocoa police, Peters-Ortiz refused to get out of the vehicle, so officers forcefully removed her while she was smoking crack cocaine.

Police said they didn't realize the girl was in the back seat until they took Peters-Ortiz into custody.

The child was taken to Wuestoff Hospital in Rockledge as a precaution. Police said the girl is OK. She was placed in the care of a family member, police said.

man Tries to Commit Suicide Using Sword, Steering Wheel

AZCentral- A 27-year-old Mesa man drove through the block wall of a Chandler home and ended up in the pool after an apparent suicide attempt Tuesday morning, Chandler Police spokesman Sgt. Joe Favazzo said.

The man positioned a 24-inch sword through the steering wheel and tied it in place with a T-shirt. Favazzo said when he drove through the wall, the airbag deployed and bent the sword.

The car broke through the fence and crashed into the pool, but he got himself out.

The man was transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, including a cut in the neck from the sword, said Favazzo.

It is unknown whether he will be charged with any crimes.

Woman Shot Through Skull, Makes Officer Tea

"When the officer got there she said, 'What's going on?' She was holding a rag on her head and talking.


She was conscious, but she was confused about what had happened. She had made herself some tea and offered the officer something to drink... She is expected to make a full recovery, while her husband shot himself dead after the attack on his wife."


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