Identified! CO - Gunnison Co., Human remains in remote area, Sep'09 - Sheri Espinoza

[AMF]

Bumping... again

There has been nothing reported on the identification of the remains found in Gunnison County, Colorado near Somerset.

 

[AMF]

Bumping for this unidentified female from Gunnison County, Colorado near Somerset. It always amazes me that the police will announce that they have a good idea of who it is... then months and months go by without anything more. The press doesn't follow up and we still don't know anything. There are several excellent possibilities, so why does it take so long. I only wish for a name and peace for this young woman.

 

[AMF]

Here's a possibility:

Sheri Espinoza
Missing Since 7/3/1998
Delta County Colorado

Lived in Paonia, CO (Very close to Somerset!)
Considered an unresolved Missing person

 

[AMF]

Bumping
For the unidentified young woman found near Somerset, Colorado.

 

[ForgottenResearchSoc]

Unable to find any updates...but did find this article from the Delta County Independent...read about the Somerset remains, but hadn't heard a thing about these and also no updates.

Remains discovered in Delta area canal
Written by Pat Sunderland
Wednesday, 17 February 2010 00:00

At approximately 3:41 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 15, the remains of an unknown, unidentified person were found under a bridge in a canal near the 1400 block of Hwy. 348 in Delta County.

The remains were discovered by a ditch rider cleaning the FN ditch just north of B Road.

Investigators from the Montrose and Delta County sheriff’s offices responded to the scene, along with the county coroner, who transported the remains to Montrose Memorial Hospital for an autopsy. Delta County Undersheriff Mark Taylor said the body had been in the canal for “quite a while.”

The Delta County Sheriff’s Office could provide no additional information at press time

 

[AMF]

Bumping....
I'm guessing that they have not yet identified her and their original "guess" was wrong. If they have an identification, then I think that they must not know where her next of kin is located now. I just wish and pray that they would make it public because then we have something to work on!

 

[AMF]

:woohoo:FINALLY! The bones have been identified as Sheri Lynn Espinoza.

http://www.montrosepress.com/articles/2010/09/04/news/doc4c81be2675c43827138513.txt

Montrose Daily Press
SOMERSET ” A skull and other bones found nearly a year ago have been identified as those of Sheri Lynn Trujillo (also identified as Sheri Lynn Espinoza), who had been missing from Delta County since July 3, 1998.

She had turned 22 a month before, according to Families of Homicide Victims and Missing Persons. Trujillo last was seen at the Redwood Arms Trailer Park in Paonia, says the nonprofit’s website.

Trujillo disappeared under suspicious circumstances, Delta County Sheriff’s Office investigators said Friday. They said they could not comment on those circumstances. A woodcutter performing contract work for the Oxbow Mine stumbled across Trujillo’s skull Sept. 13, 2009, near the power line right-of-way of Bear Creek in Somersert in Gunnison County. The skull was not concealed, Gunnison Undersheriff Rick Besecker said, but the terrain where it was found is hilly and dense with foliage.

More in the article.

 

[CarlK90245]

Positively ID'd as Sheri Lynn Espinoza

 

[trigger]

Great news for her family. I came expecting no news.


RIP :rose: Sheri Lynn

 

[trigger]

I went to CBI site because I decided I was going to call them. After all we haven't heard nothing at all for so long.

I found this when looking for some news

CBI releases database of 1,700 cold cases

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation today released an interactive database of 1,714 unsolved homicides or verified missing persons cases going back to 1970.

"CBI has created a great new tool to help advance cold cases and to assist families longing to know more about missing loved ones," Rice said.

People will soon be able to submit leads to police or sheriff's investigations on the website, said Lance Clem, CBI spokesman.

The database was modeled after one built in 2009 in Utah, which was the first state-wide cold case database, Clem said.

https://www.colorado.gov/apps/coldcase/index.html

 

[OkieGranny]

From September 2012:

http://blogs.denverpost.com/coldcases/2012/09/29/sheris-bones-woodcutter-hillside-11-years/5621/

On Thursday, July 3, 1998, she met with her daughter around 7:30 p.m.... That day Sheri had met her estranged husband at the courthouse and they argued... Sheri didn’t have an attorney. Her mother told her that if she wasn’t careful Trujillo could end up with all of their possessions.

Sheri had another startling revelation that night. She was pregnant. Lucy Espinoza made plans to meet her daughter the next day to talk about the divorce and the pregnancy. But Sheri missed the appointment and her mother was unable to reach her daughter by phone.

Lucy Espinoza was working at a convenience store in Hotchkiss the next day when Chavez drove up in Sheri’s car, a Nova. Lucy Espinoza said she immediately sensed that something was wrong.... “‘Where the hell is my daughter,’” she says she yelled at Chavez... He told her that he was in the shower when Sheri left their trailer at Redwood Arms Trailer Park in Paonia, a coal mining town 30 miles northeast of Delta.

Later the same day, Lucy Espinoza filed a missing person’s report at the Delta County Sheriff’s Office in Delta.

Listed as a cold case by CBI:

https://www.colorado.gov/apps/coldcase/casedetail.html?id=4801