NORTHRIDGE : Police Question 2 Men in Death of Woman, 74
Los Angeles police took two men in for questioning Wednesday in the death of a 74-year-old woman whose body was found in a steep canyon behind her condominium.
Lt. Bob Normandy said the woman, identified as Helen D. Forkner, possibly was pushed out the back of her condo at the Park Northridge complex, which abuts a canyon off Tampa Avenue north of Rinaldi Street.
Normandy said blood was found inside the condo, but he declined to say how the woman died. Normandy said a neighbor was awakened Wednesday morning by sounds of a scuffle at Forkner’s home. The neighbor called police, who took a suspect into custody.
Police later led another man away from the property in handcuffs, but Normandy said he was a witness. Both men were day laborers hired to do earthquake repairs at the complex.
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