A RETIRED homicide detective with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department was found dead inside a freezer, authorities said.
Miriam E. Travis, age 87, was retired as a detective-sergeant in 1990. She had served 27 years with the department. The department also included 11 years in the Homicide Bureau.
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“Our hearts are broken by this news and the entire LASD family mourns her loss,” Sheriff Alex Villanueva said in a statement.
No arrests have been made since the body was discovered in the freezer in the garage on Sunday in California after another relative asked police to check on the older woman, the Riverside Press-EnterprisereportedMonday.
Officer Javier Cabrera, Riverside Police Department said that the daughter made contradictory statements about her mother’s whereabouts.
Officers searched the house, which Cabrera described as “disheveled,” with hoarding-like conditions.
Officers discovered the body in a garage freezer.
To determine the cause of death, an autopsy was planned.
Travis’ husband died in 1992, after which she suddenly changed the locks on the house and cut off contact with her extended family, said a relative, Kerri Nickell of Oklahoma.
“It was like this is my grandmother one day, and then we never heard from her again,” Nickell explained to the Press-Enterprise.
She described Travis and her daughter as “kind of hermits.”
Cedric Valentin, 63, a landscaper who said he knew Travis, said he last saw her alive four months ago, the paper reported.
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