21 h, dec 9, 1975 y - Thomas Pemberton Est. anon phone call

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"Found dead Wednesday [12/17/75]. [...] On Dec. 9 [1975] the Santa Ana Police Department received an anonymous call saying that Pemberton's body was in Carbon Canyon. Sheriff's deputies made a cursory search of the canyon and did not find the body" (LAT 12/18/79).

"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. [...] The body was found at about 9:30am. [...] The crew had been spraying along Carbon Canyon road since Monday and had just reached the area where the body was found Wednesday" (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).
** Note: Dec. 9, 1975 was also a Tuesday night, and is the date that other sources give for the anonymous phone call (assuming there was only one).

"A San Bernardino County weed abatement control crew found the decomposed body [...] Wednesday morning. [...] On Dec. 9, Santa Ana police received an anonymous phone tip that the body of an Orange County man who had died from a drug overdose had been dumped in the San Bernardino area. Santa Ana police informed the San Bernardino sheriff's office and the California Highway Patrol of the phone tip, but a week-long search by those two agencies failed to locate the body. 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).


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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