Overview
- Law enforcement opened homicide investigations after two bodies were discovered within about 10 miles of each other in Carson, Los Angeles County.
- A golf course patron alerted authorities to a body in the Dominguez Channel that was removed by county fire crews and identified in the field as female while in severe decomposition; an autopsy is pending.
- A separate recovery of an adult man near a flood control channel on East Sepulveda Boulevard left him pronounced dead at the scene, and officials have released few details about that case.
- The Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau is handling both probes and a department spokesperson said there is currently no evidence connecting the two deaths.
- Identification delays caused by decomposition mean the medical examiner’s autopsy results will be key next steps, and investigators say they will provide more information as forensic reviews and identifications proceed.