Authorities ask for help identifying homicide victim found in California desert in 1994 cold case

Investigators with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office are asking for the public’s help identifying the victim of a 1994 homicide cold case.

On Oct. 20, 1994, Southern California Edison employees found an unidentified woman’s body lying in the open desert. The body was found near Eagle Mountain Road, about 0.6 miles north of the 10 Freeway in Desert Center.

The woman is described as 25 to 35 years old, standing roughly 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighing 130 to 150 pounds with shoulder-length hair. She was wearing a yellow metal-chain necklace. The necklace has a medallion in the shape of a ship’s wheel with an anchor in the center…

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