SHERIFF’S OFFICE CONTINUES THOROUGH PROBE OF RECENT HOMICIDE
The Inyo County Sheriff’s Office continues to actively investigate the homicide of a local resident whose body was recently found southeast of Independence.
Deputies responding to a report of a deceased individual discovered the body of 34-year-old
Independence resident Dorothy Erin McQueen’s on April 10 off of Mazourka Canyon Road.
Since then, investigators have been following numerous leads and a forensic autopsy was conducted. While investigators understand that the public is anxious for additional details and updates, they must also limit the amount of information they can release in order to protect the integrity of the investigation.
“Unfortunately, at this time our office cannot release any additional information due to the sensitive nature of the ongoing investigation,” Sheriff Stephanie Rennie said. “Our investigators, in collaboration with investigators from the Inyo County District Attorney’s Office, are working diligently and tirelessly to ensure a thorough and complete investigation is conducted.” The Inyo County Sheriff’s Office has also received vital assistance from the Mono County Sheriff’s Office and California Department of Justice.
“Our deepest sympathies go out to the family of Ms. McQueen and her close friends and loved
ones,” Rennie said, adding, “We at the Inyo County Sheriff’s Office understand the community’s
concerns and once we can release further information, we will do so expeditiously.”
Investigators have a dedicated phone line to receive tips from the public on this specific case.
Anyone with any information regarding this case is urged to contact the Inyo County Sheriff’s Office
Investigators Team at (760) 878-0383 option 4.
Hopefully this case doesn’t go unsolved like the horse slasher case, the Karlie Guse case, the Renee Fox case and others.
Slope shaper
The 2006 Renee Fox case and incident wasn’t an “unsolved ” case, and not a murder…
The worst thing about that Fox case was all the “alternative facts and truths”that were told back then to her family and with that final “report ” being told…
And the memorial constructed for her being destroyed by “unknown” people
All I could find was that the cause of death was never released? Maybe it was released to her family but not made public??
Jenifer Blue Sky On the 2006 Renee Fox case,the cause of death was released, but for many, including one or two in LE as well as her family, one of those “alternative facts” issues I mentioned…an easy way out with what they said and tried to explain after weeks of… Read more »
Law enforcement didn’t bungle anything. In fact, the nonprofit search group that came to help the family couldn’t even find her on horseback. Her cause of death, if I recall correctly, was drug toxicity.
Joseph Frank Funny ( not funny ) then, that Renee Fox’s family,and others saying they were told by Tim Miller, the head of Texas Equasearch himself, that their search group was turned away when arriving and willing to help in the search of the Mazourka Canyon area, and told to… Read more »