Noe Cortez
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88 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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He said, I have my hand around your neck, and if you scream, I'll do you in.
She was accepted to go to law school. She had recently moved back to live with her mother in the city of Los Altos. Her father had passed away six months prior. So she had been living with her mother, and she was also working in the law library at the Palo Alto Courthouse.
She talked to her supervisor and wanted to leave right at 3 p.m., which was her normal time to leave work, because she wanted to go to the hills that were west of Stanford.
She drove to the intersection of Page Mill Road and Old Page Mill. She parked her vehicle at the entrance of an old quarry. And this would have been west of Stanford University in the hills between Stanford University and Highway 280. She parked her vehicle there sometime after 3 p.m. It would probably have taken her at the most 10 minutes from her work to that location.
A deputy on patrol saw her vehicle, which stood out. It was an orange Chevrolet Nova. He got out and checked the area around the vehicle, noticed that the vehicle was unlocked and there were a pair of women's shoes in the vehicle. Nothing else. Nobody was around the vehicle. So he decided to... Just come back later on to see if it was still there.
She would go to work and be at work at 1030 in the morning. After work at 3 p.m., she would go straight home, be home by 3.30 p.m. to make dinner for her mother. If Leslie had something else to do after work, she would either call her mother or leave a note. On this day, she did not leave a note. She did not call her mother.
There wasn't anything specific that they could look into other than searching the hills and
They did contact all the residents in the area to see if they saw or heard anything. And the detectives put it out for the media for any help, witnesses, for any leads.
He was a police officer that was driving his family to a farm nearby and reported seeing Leslie's vehicle, which stood out, the orange Nova. And there was another beige or tan vehicle parked next to it with a male standing between the vehicles. That stood out to him because of the area being remote and with the information that was provided to the media.
They did take her vehicle for testing, for processing, for evidence. And at the time, fingerprinting was the major way of collecting evidence. They also collected any fibers that were inside the vehicle. But nothing ever was connected to a specific person or a specific crime.
Officers then rushed to that specific location. And when they arrived, they were shocked by what they found. It was a body of a young man who had shot himself with a shotgun. And so investigators focused on that individual as a possible suspect.
They contacted numerous individuals that lived in the area. This young man was known to frequent the area to go hiking or just sit in his vehicle. His girlfriend told investigators that they would frequently go up to that old quarry to drink alcohol. And so he was very familiar with the area.
During their investigation, they learned that at the time Leslie disappeared, he was at home, he was not anywhere near that location, and eventually ruled him out.
It wasn't until Friday, February 16th, at approximately 10.40 in the morning, that a sheriff's mounted deputy reported that he had discovered Leslie's body.
She was found partially unclothed with her skirt moved up past her waist, so her lower body was exposed, and she was face down underneath the oak tree.
One thing that stood out was that her pantyhose and her underwear were stuffed down her mouth. And she had a scarf around her neck, which was eventually determined that it was the ligature used to strangle her.
One thing that did stand out was that her rain boots were taken off her and detectives at the time located the rain boots 75 feet away approximately from her body.
The assumption was there was an attempted sexual assault that Leslie fought for her life. And during that fight for her life, she sustained numerous blunt force trauma injuries and eventually was strangled to death by the perpetrator.
They collected pubic hair, scalp hair, for evidence.
They collected the fingernails for any signs of blood evidence or anything that could be tested.
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