dec 4, 1975 - Thomas Pemberton Body dumped + Est. PMI + Official DOD #1

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"Partially decomposed body [...] was discovered Wednesday morning [12/17/75] in a ravine along Carbon Canyon road. [...] Sheriff's department homicide investigators said that the body had been lying there for several days" (CC 12/19/75).
"Sheriff's detectives said that they had received a report from the Anaheim Police department Tuesday night [12/16/75] that the body of a man who had died of a drug overdose had been dumped somewhere in Carbon Canyon 12 days before" (CC 12/19/75).

"A San Bernardino County weed abatement control crew found the decomposed body [...] Wednesday morning. [...] San Bernardino county coroner officials said Pemberton had been dead for approximately two weeks. Cause of death was tentatively attributed to a drug overdose" (OCR 12/19/75).

"San Bernardino County sheriff's detectives estimated that he had been dead for approximately two weeks" (LAT 12/25/75).

There are two different entries for him in the CA Death Index available on Ancestry, with the only difference between the two being the date of death: for one, the DOD is Dec. 4, 1975, while in the other it is Dec. 12, 1975; the former is the DOD on FindAGrave (a user-submitted site).


HS 12/18/75: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-hanford-sentinel-thomas-pemberton/198920308/
LAT 12/18/75: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-thomas-pemberton/198920294/
CC 12/19/75: https://www.newspapers.com/article/chino-champion-thomas-pemberton/198920248/
OCR 12/19/75: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-register-thomas-pemberton/198920325/
HS 12/23/75: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-hanford-sentinel-thomas-pemberton/198920348/
LAT 12/25/75: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-thomas-pemberton/198920362/

FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/138763816/thomas-wayne-pemberton

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