TRANSCRIPT OF POLICE STATEMENT
26TH DECEMBER
CHIEF - What I'm about to tell you is preliminary information and could change, quite possibly will change, as detectives get further into the investigation. And what we're looking at right now, I think everybody knows the background on this, so I won't go into it, but what we're looking at right now is a very, very perplexing crime scene and detectives right now are looking at this as a possible murder but we don't know for sure.
So again, because of the complexity, the complex crime scene, we can't say for sure what we have.
REPORTER - How many people were found.. were there 2 people in the car?
CHIEF - There are 2 people in the car.
REPORTER - Are they dead?
CHIEF - They are deceased and we believe that it is the missing woman and her boyfriend but we can't confirm that right now, officially, until the medical examiner takes a look at the bodies and makes that determination as to their identity.
REPORTER - So, the missing woman was pregnant - Any update on the baby?
CHIEF - No, I mean, I can't say for sure, I'm not gonna say anything officially about whether the person in the vehicle was pregnant or is pregnant. I can't say that officially so I'm not going to. We have to wait for the medical examiner to say anything officially, but we do believe that the two individuals were.. are the female who was missing and her boyfriend.
REPORTER - Any weapon inside the car?
CHIEF - We don't know that yet. We have not been able to move the bodies.
REPORTER - Is it a Kia Optima?
CHIEF - Yes, it's the car that was described as the boyfriend's.
REPORTER - Did the family call in about the car.
CHIEF - Yes, the family did. They were alerted that the car was here and they phoned it in.
REPORTER - And that was around 4 o'clock?
CHIEF - I don't know exactly what time it came in.
REPORTER - Do you know how long they may have been here for?
CHIEF - We're thinking, possibly, for 3 or 4 days.
REPORTER - So who exactly found the car?
CHIEF - I don't know exactly who found it, but the parent's were alerted by someone.. or the family was alerted by someone who came across the vehicle.
REPORTER - We know that the Clear Alert obviously went out in Leon Valley, but there have been questions on why FAPD did not issue their own alert. Were you ever alerted to any idea that this could have been in your jurisdiction?
CHIEF - I believe we became aware of it but this originating in Leon Valley, that's why I came out from there, the Clear Alert.
REPORTER - Was there ever any indication that SAPD should have put out a clear alert of their own?
CHIEF - No.
REPORTER - So are you all leading this investigation into the death, is Leon Valley still involved in the investigation?
CHIEF - No. If there's any information that Leon Valley has, our detectives will work with Leon Valley on that, but the case is an SAPD case right now.
REPORTER - What can you say to the Soto family who are here today?
CHIEF - What can I say to them? Exactly what I just told you.
REPORTER - What makes this a complex crime scene?
CHIEF - I don't want to go into details about that, but again, I will repeat that it appears to be a very complex crime scene; very perplexing crime scene.
REPORTER - Was the FBI ever involved in this investigation, or is anybody else going to be involved with the complexity of it?
CHIEF - No, not unless we reach out to them, but no.
REPORTER - Do you know why they were here?
CHIEF - No, I don't.
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