Could body be that of IRS agent?

Published: January 16, 2008 | Author: Krystina Orozco
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SAN FRANCISCO — The Marin County Sheriff’s department search-and-rescue team found an unidentified body of a woman on Mount Tamalpais and are still trying to investigate if the body belongs to 25-year old agent Veronica Ruiz who has been missing since last December 3. The Marin County Coroner office told Philippine News Monday, January 14, 2008, that the body will be identified by its dental records and will most likely be confirmed by Wednesday.

Found by a member of the Marin County Search and Rescue team during an exercise training, discovering the body within that area was clearly not an accident. The rescue team and volunteers had coordinated with each other to make sure both parties can search more uncovered areas as possible while at the same time, not covering the same areas both at once. The Mill Valley police tells the “San Francisco Chronicle” that there were no reports of other missing women in the Mount Tamalpias area. Said Lt. Doug Pittman of Marin County Sheriff’s Department, “We are classifying it as a suspicious death” because of the way the body was concealed by trees and shrubs in a location called the Slide Gulch Ravine.

The trail in which the body was found had not been searched by volunteers nor rescue teams. Neither could it be seen from off of the normal Mount Tamalpais trails. Ruiz, an Internal Revenue Service agent, went missing on December 3rd, two days after a breakup with a boyfriend. She had called in sick from her job the day she went missing and told a friend she was going for a hike. As of press time, PN is trying to reach the Ruiz family, but no one was picking up the phone at a sister’s house.