Garden Grove : Body Identified as That of Debbie Ann Lee, 24

A body found in an orange grove in Corona was identified Wednesday as that of Debbie Ann Lee, the Garden Grove woman allegedly killed two months ago by a stereo shop owner who was once her boyfriend, police said.

The Riverside County coroner’s office was able to identify the body through dental records, Garden Grove Police Lt. John Woods said. An autopsy to determine the cause of death was scheduled for Wednesday night, he said.

The body was found Monday in a shallow grave near Lincoln and Ontario streets in south Corona by an investigator working for the attorney of Robert Martin Gray Jr., Miss Lee’s former boyfriend, who is suspected of killing her.

Gray, 30, of Garden Grove is in Orange County Jail on $250,000 bail. His murder trial is scheduled to begin Nov. 7.

At Gray’s preliminary hearing last month, a former employee at Gray’s stereo shop in Garden Grove testified that he helped his boss remove Miss Lee’s body from a trailer behind the shop and dispose of it near the Riverside County line.

The employee, Robert J. Estrada, said Gray was angry at Miss Lee--who was 24 when she died--because he believed she had given him AIDS. Doctors have examined Gray and found no evidence that he has been infected with the virus believed to cause AIDS.