Five days before a woman who has disappeared from San Diego was found to die in a Drain of Storm of Poway, the police had spotted his vehicle at the start of the nearby trail.
The information published Thursday by the medical doctor’s office highlights more why the San Diego police were looking for Yafang Zhou, 59, in the distant region.
Zhou was discovered by rescuers inside an underground pipe system near Beeler Canyon Trailhead, south of Scripps Poway Parkway on Monday. She was taken to the Palomar Medical Center, where she died.
According to new information from the Legalist’s office, his vehicle was found by San Diego police, parked near the start of the trail five days earlier on April 2. Comté investigators added that its personal effects were scattered near the vehicle.
The investigators then contacted Zhou’s family and her husband submitted the report of a person who disappeared the next day. Police said she was seen for the last time while moving her home from her home on March 25.
For five days, the detectives searched the area around the parking lot of the path – until Monday, when the investigators said they heard a woman’s voice inside the pipe system. They called the urban research and rescue team of the San Diego fire department, said Erik Windsor, head of the fire rescue battalion, said at the time.
A pair of rescuers has entered the system of winding underground pipes, taking two different paths and climbing bears through tight spots in the hope of finding Zhou, but they failed, Windsor said.
While waiting for small robots – which could more easily sail in the drainage system while offering the rescuers of visuals inside the pipes – the team members on the surface began to lift nearby men’s holes which dot the road to Beeler Canyon.
At one point, a rescuer raised one of the metal blankets on the road and spotted Zhou’s legs below, Windsor said. A member of the team was then lowered to hoist it.
The medical examiner’s office said Zhou was in an “altered mental state” when he was found and that her condition quickly deteriorated once she arrived at the hospital.
Windsor said those responsible thought that Zhou had entered the storm drainage system through a nearby outing a few hundred meters from the place where his parked vehicle was found.
Police investigators did not immediately provide answers to additional questions about Zhou’s disappearance, especially how long they believe that she was inside the tunnel and why she had entered the pipe system to start.
The investigation remains in progress.
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