Investigators have announced that skeletal remains of a 1979 Lake County homicide victim were identified last month as a Southern California woman. Wanda Lee Brewer’s body was discovered Sept. 18, 1979, and were unidentified until last month. Officials didn’t say if they identified how she died. A couple found the Carson woman while hunting near Highway 175 along the border of Lake and Mendocino counties. An investigation went cold until March 2023 when the California Department of Justice suggested working with a private DNA lab, Othram. The investigation into her death is ongoing.
1979 Lake County Homicide Victim Identified as Woman From Carson
