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Woman Found Murdered in Her Car

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A 24-year-old Winnetka woman reported missing was found dead in her car yesterday, leading police to the of arrest her ex-boyfriend. Doris Salguero was last seen alive at a company holiday party in Carson on Saturday night. She didn't return home, prompting her current boyfriend to report her missing on Sunday morning. Come Monday, Salguero's brother went to her apartment in search of her; not finding her, he left, but not before he spotted her car where her body, apparently stabbed several times, was found under a jacket and covered in blood in the backseat. Detectives spoke to her 30-year-old ex boyfriend in East L.A. as a witness, but after things he said, he was arrested on suspicious of murder. Salguero leaves behind a 6-year-old son.

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