An indigenous woman reported missing out of Riverside County earlier this month was found dead Sunday by family members who believe she was likely fleeing from her boyfriend when she was killed.
A “Feather Alert” was issued by the California Highway Patrol for Amy Porter , 43, a member of the Morongo Band of Mission Indians Tribe, who was last seen on Sept. 14 at around 2 p.m. in Lake Elsinore.
On Sept. 22, according to a news release from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, family members, discovered the woman’s body in a desert area near Interstate 10 and Wildwood Canyon Road in Yucaipa.
“They said it was bad and I didn’t need to see it,” Shannon Quesada, Porter’s cousin told KTLA’s Shelby Nelson. “I didn’t want that last impression of her to be in my mind.”
Family members said they thought Porter was just leaving her Lake Elsinore home for the day, but on Sept. 17 family members learned from her boyfriend that she was still missing and that he’d last seen her in Pomona.