S. California police trying to identify severed head found in backpack in desert
By APWednesday, February 17, 2010
S. Calif. police trying to ID head found in desert
BARSTOW, Calif. — Police in Southern California are trying to identify a human head that was found inside a backpack in the San Bernardino County desert.
Police says a man collecting cans found the backpack last week. Inside was the head of a brown-haired woman, wrapped in plastic grocery bags with the store labels “Fiesta Foods” and “Walgreens.”
Barstow police say DNA samples and X-rays have been sent to the state and investigators also are asking for the public’s help.
The head was found west of a residential neighborhood not far from several truck stops.
Barstow is about 90 miles northeast of Los Angeles.
Information from: The Sun, www.sbsun.com
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