Buckman Springs
The partly clothed body of a woman in her late 20s or early 30s was discovered Thursday afternoon in a remote area of East County about a mile north of Interstate 8.
The woman has not been identified and the cause of death had not been determined Friday night pending an autopsy, a San Diego County Sheriff’s Department spokesman said.
The victim was white, 5-foot-3, about 120 pounds and had light-brown hair, he said.
An El Cajon man driving by saw the body on Sheephead Mountain Road, near Buckman Springs in the southeast part of the county, about 2:45 p.m. and called police, the spokesman said. The spokesman said the body may have been at the site for up to 24 hours.
Sheriff’s deputies said they could not link the apparent killing to a series of more than two dozen unsolved murders of women, many of them prostitutes, that began in 1985. Most of those bodies were discovered off I-8 in East County.
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