Woman Dies in Leap From Rancho Palos Verdes Cliff
A woman leaped to her death Monday afternoon from cliffs in Rancho Palos Verdes, just 1/2 mile from the spot where two teenagers committed suicide last month, authorities said.
Witnesses told sheriff’s investigators they saw the woman, identified only as being in her 40s, on a ledge about 12:20 p.m. at Point Vicente Park and Interpretive Center before she fell 150 feet to the beach.
“The park was full of people,” said sheriff’s Deputy Judy Gibson.
A group of schoolchildren was walking near the site when one of the adults in the group shooed the children away and then saw the woman jump, Gibson said.
The woman was at the park on Saturday, when park employee John Westad and two other men talked her away from the cliffs and into the Interpretive Center.
“She was saying things like her husband calls her the devil and now her daughter was trained to call her that too,” Westad said.
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