The Santa Clara County Sheriff
’s Office is investigating the apparent homicide of a woman
found dead Monday afternoon in her car on Hecker Pass Highway.
The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the apparent homicide of a woman found dead Monday afternoon in her car on Hecker Pass Highway.
A commercial trucker found the victim, who was described only as a Hispanic woman in her early 20s, just after noon. She was sitting, slumped over the steering wheel, in a champagne-colored Toyota coupe parked with its lights on and engine running on the south shoulder of Highway 152, facing east.
A cause of death had not been determined Monday night, and authorities would not say what type of injuries the woman sustained. The death was considered “suspicious” from the start of the incident, and officially deemed a homicide six hours later.
Investigators offices were placing evidence markers and measuring the crime scene Monday afternoon. Deputies slowed traffic on both sides of the scene, which was located in the middle of a sharp S-shaped curve just east of Pole Line Road near Mt. Madonna County Park.
Because the woman may have been on the road for hours and the road is heavily traveled, Sheriff’s Lt. Luther Pugh said drivers who were on the road Sunday night or early Monday morning may remember something about the incident.
Anyone with information about the death is asked to contact Sheriff’s investigators Sgt. Dean Baker or Sgt. Pete Contreras at 808-4500.
Gilroy Dispatch reporter Lori Stuenkel can be reached at ls*******@************ch.com or 847-7158.
