By Tori Richards
January 24, 2007
LA PALMA, Calif. (Crime Library) — The abandoned car belonging to a missing 38-year-old Orange County woman was found Tuesday with blood in the trunk but no body, police said.
Police were notified about the car at 1:45 p.m. when a security guard phoned in a tip that the car had been sitting in a business parking lot for a week. Amber Lee Hill went missing on Jan. 9 after leaving the graveyard shift at the Coca Cola bottling company in Downy, about 10 miles away.
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| Amber Hill |
"We didn't find a body, but we found a box on the floor of the trunk and some tennis shoes," said La Palma police Capt. Eric Nunez. "There was a significant amount of blood."
The blood was on top of two cardboard boxes that were flattened to line the bottom of the trunk and the shoes didn't appear to be bloody, Nunez said.
Detectives opened the trunk at about 4:45 p.m. after obtaining a search warrant. The passenger portion of the car was not opened and the vehicle was towed to the Orange County Sheriff's Department crime lab.
"The fortunate thing is that we didn't find the body, but the unfortunate thing is that we did find blood," Nunez said.
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