Andrea Vazquez of Downey, a Fullerton College student, was abducted from Penn Park in Whittier early Sunday morning.
Detectives have found the body of a 19-year-old Downey woman in Moreno Valley and arrested a suspect in her slaying., officials said.
Police didn’t say how they identified Esparza as the suspect or why the two-day search for Andrea Vazquez happened “in large open land areas of Moreno Valley.” However, Vazquez’s sister, Edlyn,that she traced her sibling’s phone to a field in Moreno Valley. She found blood there but not the phone or her sister.
There is no evidence of a robbery, he added. Investigators are not looking for other suspects, Mattsson said.Henry Hua, interim vice president of administrative services at Fullerton College, confirmed Vazquez is a student and was enrolled this fall.
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