Week in Review : MAJOR EVENTS, IMAGES AND PEOPLE IN ORANGE COUNTY NEWS : AT THE SCENE : Offender Sought as Suspect in Slaying of Placentia Teen

Two weeks of waiting ended in tragedy as the strangled, raped and tortured body of a missing Placentia 14-year-old was found, and authorities began their search for a suspect.

Wendy Rachelle Osborn’s fully clothed body was found in the Chino Hills last Sunday. The 5-foot-3, 93-pound teen-ager had been sexually assaulted and she had been dead about 48 hours. About 12 “pinching-type wounds,” perhaps inflicted with “pliers or a clamping type device,” were found on Wendy’s torso, San Bernardino authorities said.

Autopsy results showed Wendy may have been alive eight to 10 days after she was last seen as she left for school Jan. 20.

Her father, Jack Osborn, called on the public Thursday to provide information that could lead to the arrest of his daughter’s killer and for contributions to a reward fund in her name.

“We must capture her killer and put him in a place where he can no longer inflict the terrible wound he’s given to us and our daughter,” the slain teen-ager’s father said at a press conference at the Adam Walsh Child Resource Center in Orange.

“This person is no threat to us. We have no more daughters to lose, but you do. There are hundreds . . . thousands of little girls at risk.”

Warren James Bland, a convicted sex offender accused of murdering a 7-year-old South Pasadena girl, was being sought for questioning in Wendy’s murder.

A warrant for Bland’s arrest was issued Wednesday by Riverside County authorities in connection with the strangulation slaying of Phoebe Ho, 7, a South Pasadena girl whose body was found in a field in the Glen Avon area. The charge carries the death penalty.

Bland, 51, remained at large. He was thought to have been driving a stolen 1970 light blue Toyota Corolla station wagon with license plate 312 ASU, authorities said.

San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Capt. Gene Rogers, who heads a task force of San Bernardino and Riverside county investigators working on the Osborn case, said Bland is a suspect in Osborn’s killing because “he is pretty well linked . . . with physical evidence” in the Phoebe Ho case and because of similarities between the two killings.

But Rogers stressed that Bland “is wanted for questioning only” in the Wendy Osborn case.