CA CA - Garden Grove, UnsUnc, skeletal remains found in wheel well of Concord Travel trailer, Jan 1990

[Murkywaters]

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

Partial skeletal remains found on January 20, 1990 in the wheel well inside a 1971 Concord Travel Trailer in the city of Garden Grove, California.

 

[Murkywaters]

ME/C Case Number 90-00420-MZ
Demographics
Sex: Unsure
Race / Ethnicity: Uncertain
Possible First Name --
Possible Middle Name--
Possible Last Name--
Possible Nickname--
Estimated Age Group: Cannot Determine
Estimated Age Range (Years)--
Estimated Year of Death--
Estimated PMI--
Height: Cannot Estimate
Weight: Cannot Estimate

Circumstances
Type: Unidentified Deceased
Date Body Found: January 20, 1990
NamUs Case Created: August 6, 2020
ME/C QA Reviewed--
Location Found Map
Location: Garden Grove, California
County: Orange County
GPS Coordinates (Not Mapped)--
Found On Tribal Land: No
Circumstances of Recovery: Partial skeletal remains found on January 20, 1990 in the wheel well inside a 1971 Concord Travel Trailer in the city of Garden Grove, California.

Details of Recovery
Inventory of Remains --
Condition of Remains: Not recognizable - Partial skeletal parts only

Physical Description
Hair Color: Unknown
Left Eye Color: Unknown
Right Eye Color: Unknown
Eye Description --

Distinctive Physical Features
No Information Entered

Clothing and Accessories
No Information Entered

Investigating Agencies
Case Owner
Orange County Sheriff's Department Coroner Division
(714) 647-7400
Agency Case Number: 90-00420-MZ

 

[Bit of hope]

Is it a trailer like this one? I'm just wondering.....how can you stash a body in the wheel well.....where was it standing? A trailer park?

 

[Melt71]

The mind boggles... was it a homeless person who crawled in there to keep warm in winter if the trailer was abandoned somewhere like a field? Surely it must have been unused for someone to become skeletal without anyone noticing.

 

[Bit of hope]

Sadly this UID is not listed on the Orange County coroner site. I was hoping there could be some more info, but nope.

 

[Nate_Bro]

I'm wondering if the van was used to smuggle people across the border at some stage and the poor person was somehow forgotten about.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Why partial remains (were any bones found in the surrounding area?), and do they have any identifiers for this person, I wonder?

The wheel well is open to the outside but is a relatively small space, right? Could someone explain how a person could even get in there? Could someone actually hide in that space, or would it be more likely someone tried to quickly hide a body there and would have to make an effort to push the victim into that space?

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Maria Guadalupe Laureano?

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