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Friday, Jan. 29, 2010 | 2:30 p.m.
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Metro Police released a photo today of a woman found dead in an abandoned vehicle Jan. 15 southeast of Las Vegas as investigators continue to search for a person seen approaching the woman’s vehicle the previous day at a Strip casino.
The Clark County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as 21-year-old Prisma Contreras of Las Vegas. Police released the photos with hopes that someone will come forward with information in the case.
A photo of the woman’s blue 2006 Jeep Liberty with Nebraska license plates also was released Friday. Authorities had previously released a surveillance video photo of a 1995-1998 model Nissan Sentra that was in the parking lot at the Hooters casino where Contreras worked as a service assistant.
Police said surveillance cameras show an unknown person exit a vehicle and approach Contreras’ Jeep. That was the last time the woman was seen, police said.
Boulder City Police found the body at 10:45 a.m. Jan. 15 in an abandoned vehicle found near U.S. 95 and Nelson's Landing Road south of Boulder City.
The cause and manner of Contreras' death haven’t been determined, the coroner's office said Friday. There are few leads in the case, authorities said.
Anyone with any information about the woman's death or the white vehicle seen on video surveillance is being asked to contact Crime Stoppers at (702) 385-5555 or the Metro homicide section at (702) 828-3521.
Her photo should have been released at least a week ago...
It makes me more angry when I realize that a murder victim was a young woman rather than an old druggie. Is that normal?
This is sad, but I just wonder why she had Nebraska plates...military or????
The cause and manner of her death haven't been determined????????????????????
Why not??????????????
While this happening to such a beautiful young girl is tragic I would hope the killer of an old druggie was brought to justice just the same. It is strange that her MS page has been accessed after she was found dead unless the authorities gained access to it to help in the investigation. She must have known her killer and allowed this person to get in her car thinking they wouldn't hurt her. I hope the Sun follows up on this story.
...Gee,....
Reminds me of when someone told me that when you wallo with pigs you are gonna get mud on you, plain and simple....
Just like, where there is smoke, there is fire....
I guess this is Rocket Science for some people, I dunno.....
Not sure that this was a murder. She might have over dosed on some drugs and the people she was with left her body in an abandon car. Cause of death needs to be determined.
In any event, any time a attractive young lady kicks the bucket, I'm sad.
I just do not understand why people have to turn to violence.
She appeared to be a lovely youg lady and it is a shame that she passed away.
In today's world it seems as though the answer to problems,hurt is violence.Whoever was involved with her death should be found and if she logged in on her myspace page was 1/16/10 and she was found dead on 1/15/10 this seems like a possible lead for investigators.I clicked on the link that gdagreat posted and sure enough her last login in was 1/16/10 could not read her post because it was in another language but investigators could interpert.Ithink someone close to her was involved.Hopefully the investigators will find out what happened very soon and will bring her life to final rest.My thoughts and prayers go out to the family and close friends of this young lady.
I agree with saltydawg they have not said the cause of death and at the same time all it says is the video "shows a person exit a vehicle and approach Contreras' Jeep."
Did the person get into the Jeep?
Was there what appeared to be an argument or struggle?
Was the Jeep even in the video or are they just assuming that the person must have been going to her jeep because they were walking that direction?
They say they want the public's help in case's like this but they never show anything that is helpful.
There are allot of 95-98 Nissan Sentra's on the road and cars that look similar especially in a poor quality picture or video. The last login that shows on her MS Page is from the investigators when they logged in so they view any friend profiles that were marked as private, probably scanning through photo's looking for the car to be in one and if they didn't then they probably should. There's a few other things they should be looking at that I won't mention because I don't want to screw up there investigation.
reality not same as t.v.is it?huh