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Body found at Emma Wood State Beach is identified
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More from Local NewsAuthorities on Tuesday identified a woman whose body was found this weekend at Emma Wood State Beach in Ventura.
Janice Cordero, 59, died of natural causes, said Shasta Gainer, a forensic pathology technician in the Ventura County Medical Examiner's office.
Cordero was homeless, Gainer said.
Cordero's body was found in a patch of poison oak about 5 p.m. Sunday by a park aide who was walking near the beach's group camp with his daughters.
The remains were skeletal and it appeared that they had been there for several weeks, officials said.
Posted by imbetnonit on July 11, 2007 at 1 a.m. (Suggest removal)
She's home now. God Bless her.
Posted by HickyPany on July 12, 2007 at 1:52 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I hope she did all that’s asked of us to make it into heaven.
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