El Cajon detectives need help solving Mexican woman’s killing nearly 30 years ago

Exactly 28 years after a mother of three was found slain in a brushy ravine in eastern San Diego County, authorities this week put out another call for information that might help close the case on her long- unsolved murder.

The remains of 30-year-old Alicia Ledezma Sanchez were discovered in an open area off the 1300 block of Avocado Avenue in El Cajon on Aug. 13, 1998. Investigators believe she had been dead for as long as six weeks.

The death of Sanchez, a Mexican national who came to the United States to find work in hopes of giving her children a better future, was classified as a homicide, though no cause-of-death ruling case has been made public…

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