Authorities Found Norma Lopez body at Moreno Valley

MORENO VALLEY — Authorities confirmed that a addle anatomy begin in the arid is 17-year-old babe Norma Lopez.

Sheriff’s agent Joseph Borja said Wednesday they articular the anatomy of Norma Lopez through dental records.

But board would not absolution the account of death.

The anatomy was begin in a bracken of copse abreast Theodore St. and Dracaea Avenue by a citizen who anon alleged police.

The addle body, shirtless and clad in jeans, was face-down in a bracken of copse in the agronomical breadth on the eastern bend of Moreno Valley.

Lopez vanished Thursday while walking home from a summer academy chic at Valley View High School.

Detectives say Lopez was accepted to accommodated her adolescent sister and a associate at the girls’ home in the 27000 block of Cottonwood Avenue.

Family associates told badge Norma usually absolved home from academy south on Nason Artery to Dracaea Avenue and again took a adjustment through a acreage south to Cottonwood.

The field, a acclaimed adjacency shortcut, is off a artery that dead-ends at the abject of boulder-studded hills cut with trails.

When she did not arrive, her ancestors searched for her for two hours, according to Borja.

Items acceptance to Lopez were begin in a acreage abreast her home and there additionally were signs of a accessible struggle.

Authorities did not appetite to acknowledge the capacity of those belongings, citation the advancing investigation.

A newer archetypal green-colored SUV was apparent in the breadth of Norma’s disappearance.

Borja said the SUV was not advised a doubtable vehicle, but they capital to account the disciplinarian in hopes of acquirements added advice about the affairs of Norma’s disappearance.

Police and the FBI accept not articular a doubtable and accept asked the accessible for advice in the investigation.

“We do accept a few leads that we’re still afterward up … but I wouldn’t say that we’re any closer,” Borja said.

Borja said it was alien whether the babe was taken by an associate or a stranger.

Her admirer had been interviewed several times and was cooperative, Borja said.

Anyone with advice in the case is asked to alarm the Moreno Valley Badge Hotline at 1-877-242-4345.