GUILTY CA - Shane Ayala, 21, Palm Springs, 24 August 2011

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http://blogs.pe.com/news/digest/2011/09/palm-springs-police-seek-missi.html

By PE News on September 16, 2011 4:25 PM
STEVEN BARRIE

PALM SPRINGS: Police seek missing man, 21

 

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http://www.facebook.com/notes/palm-...missing-persons-investigation/253109508060477

 

[summer_breeze]

Email sent to Palm Springs Police Department PIO. Will post if I hear anything back.

 

[Cubby]

SKY VALLEY — Investigators are trying to identify the skeletal remains of a man discovered Tuesday in Sky Valley.

A hiker found the bones several miles north of Thousand Palms Canyon and Dillon roads about 3:25 p.m., according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department.

http://www.mydesert.com/article/20111221/NEWS0801/112210321/Skeletal-remains-man-found-Sky-Valley?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFrontpage



This is not the same set of remains found Saturday December 17 in Palm Springs a few miles away.

 

[passionflower]

2 sets of deceased found a few miles apart..........and just found days apart
interesting . maybe a connection between them or their fate.

 

[Cubby]

I was being very general by 'a few miles'. On a map it doesn't look far at all between the two locations.

 

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--- On Wed, 12/28/11, Simon Min <[email protected]> wrote:


From: Simon Min <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: CA - Shane Ayala - 21 years old - Palm Springs - 24-Aug-2011
To: <redacted>
Date: Wednesday, December 28, 2011, 7:06 PM


XXXX XXXX,



We do not have any updates at this time.



Detective Simon Min

 

[Donjeta]

Functioning link.

http://thousandpalms.kpsplocal2.com/news/crime/90940-human-bones-found-sky-valley

 

[CALSAR]

Two Coachella Valley men were charged Monday with murder, accused in the death of Shane Ayala whose bones were found in Sky Valley desert last year.

http://www.mydesert.com/article/201...und-desert?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Frontpage

 

[CALSAR]

Two Coachella Valley men were charged Monday with murder, accused in the death of Shane Ayala whose bones were found in Sky Valley desert last year.

http://www.mydesert.com/article/2012...text|Frontpage

 

[OkieGranny]

From November 2014:

http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/crime_courts/2014/11/07/murder-convict-life-sentence/18676443/

A Coachella Valley resident who participated in the kidnap-murder of a 21-year-old man whose remains were found in the desert a few months later was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Luis Raul Diaz, 38, was convicted a year ago of first-degree murder, with jurors finding true a special circumstance allegation of murder in the commission of a kidnapping.

Andrew De Los Santos, the alleged triggerman in the death of Shane Ayala, is awaiting trial on the same charges brought against Diaz.

 

[OkieGranny]

From August:

http://www.kesq.com/news/guilty-jury-convicts-cathedral-city-man-in-kidnap-murder-case/34788452

A Cathedral City man was convicted of first-degree murder for killing a 21-year-old man in Sky Valley during a kidnapping four years ago. Andrew Michael De Los Santos, 30, faces life in prison without the possibility of parole for the death of Shane Ayala...

Bustamante told jurors that De Los Santos overheard the victim making suspicious comments to someone during a cell phone call, moments before returning to find his Cathedral City condo burglarized.

De Los Santos and Diaz beat the victim and demanded he confess to organizing the burglary while the three men traveled to Indio to buy black tar heroin, the prosecutor alleged. "(Ayala) wouldn't admit to stealing from him,'' Bustamante said... The three drove to Sky Valley, north of Thousand Palms, where De Los Santos allegedly killed Ayala and then came back months later and set fire to the remains, Bustamante said.