Missing Woman’s Body Found in Southeast Washington

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — An post-mortem has confirmed {that a} physique present in southeastern Washington belongs to a Washington mom of three who had been reported lacking.

Yanira Cedillos was celebrating her thirtieth birthday earlier than she disappeared in early March. Since then Moses Lake police say they’ve been trying to find her physique, believing she was killed in her house by a Hermiston, Oregon, man, with whom she had beforehand lived and been concerned romantically.

Police stated info from suspect Juan Gastelum’s cellphone confirmed he had been a distant space off Freeway 12 close to the Washington-Oregon border on the day she disappeared.

Officers searched the world Thursday and found a lady’s physique inside a sleeping bag coated in tree limbs and leaves, The Tri-Metropolis Herald reported. An post-mortem Monday on the Spokane County Medical Examiner’s Workplace confirmed it was Cedillos.

Gastelum was arrested in March on suspicion of homicide and rape. He stays lodged in Umatilla County Jail in Oregon, courtroom data present. It wasn’t instantly recognized if he has a lawyer to talk on his behalf.

Her household in a press release thanked Moses Lake police for persevering with the search and thanked the group and others for his or her help, KREM reported.

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