Police seek tips on 40-year-old unsolved murder in Scripps Ranch
Detectives have been unable to determine the victim s identity, but the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children provided them with an artist s rendering. Author: City News Service Updated: 1:06 PM PST February 18, 2021
SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. Authorities Thursday released an artist s rendering in hopes of identifying a man whose body was found in a burning dumpster outside of a Scripps Ranch grocery store nearly four decades ago.
About 5 a.m. on Sept. 28, 1981, employees at Big Bear Super Market on Mira Mesa Bouelvard near Scripps Ranch Boulevard called 911 after smelling smoke coming from the back of the business, according to San Diego police.
Authorities released an artist's rendering in hopes of identifying a man whose body was found in a burning dumpster outside of a Scripps Ranch grocery store nearly four decades ago.