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Angeles National Forest: Lorraine Minjarez, 32

By Richard Winton
 and Anthony Pesce
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Lorraine Minjarez, a 32-year Latina, was found dead Saturday, Nov. 7, at the 1.34-mile marker on Mt. Baldy Road in the Angeles National Forest, authorities said.

Ed Winter, a spokesman for the coroner’s office, said she was strangled and her neck had been slashed several times. Robert Louis Caballero, 32, of Pomona was arrested Saturday in connection with three killings, including Minjarez’s.

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Caballero was taken into custody after leading police on a short chase when he refused to pull over for a minor traffic stop. He was detained on suspicion of murder in the Sept. 29 shooting of Armando Vidana, 25, of Pomona. He is also suspected of killing David Arthur Padilla Jr., 29, of El Monte on Saturday morning.

For Times coverage of the killings see: Pomona man arrested in fatal shooting may be linked to two other deaths

-- Richard Winton, Baxter Holmes and Anthony Pesce

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Richard Winton

Richard Winton is an investigative crime writer for the Los Angeles Times and part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2011. Known as @lacrimes on Twitter, during almost 30 years at The Times he also has been part of the breaking news staff that won Pulitzers in 1998, 2004 and 2016.

Anthony Pesce

Anthony Pesce worked for the Los Angeles Times from 2009 to 2020 as a data journalist and reporter on the Data and Graphics desk.

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