A Southern California lady who was killed in 1977 has been recognized by a chilly case workforce, authorities mentioned Friday. A cranium and different skeletal stays present in 1986 have been recognized this week as these of Linda LeBeau, who was reported lacking in Tustin, the Riverside County district lawyer's workplace mentioned.
LeBeau, whose maiden identify was Durnall, was born on April 10, 1950. Her stays have been discovered down an embankment alongside the Ortega Freeway in Lake Elsinore by state freeway surveyors. Investigators decided that the sufferer had been shot within the head however they could not establish the stays, the DA's workplace mentioned.
Final August, the Regional Chilly Case Murder Group had a number of units of stays exhumed and despatched for DNA comparisons. LeBeau's stays have been recognized after a potential match was discovered between DNA of potential kin and DNA in a state lacking individuals database, authorities mentioned.
LeBeau was divorced and her boyfriend reported her lacking to Tustin police in 1977, authorities mentioned.
On the day LeBeau went lacking, she was supposed to satisfy her ex-husband, Phillip LeBeau, at a restaurant to gather cash he owed for damaging her boyfriend's automobile, patch.com reported. Witnesses reported seeing her arguing with a person believed to be Phillip LeBeau at a close-by gasoline station and he or she was by no means seen once more, the outlet reported.
The Orange County Register reported that Phillip LeBeau was thought of a suspect within the case, however he died in 2008.
"Tustin police investigators had maintained an lively investigation into the lacking individuals, potential murder case, since her disappearance, persevering with to observe up on leads, however had not been in a position to convey the case to decision," the Riverside County district lawyer's workplace mentioned.