A heartbroken family has been given a small bit of closure after the body of 21-year-old mother Lupita Zúñiga Ontiveros was found following a dune buggy crash that threw her and three others into the water.
“We still don’t know why my niece was the only one who didn’t get out,” her uncle, Cesar Ontiveros, said. “They say it is under investigation, but they don’t really tell us anything.”
According to the Merced County Sheriff’s Office, around 10:15 a.m. local time on Feb. 8, deputies received a report of a body located in a canal about seven miles from the site where Lupita was last seen near the Central California town of Gustine…