Killing of Pregnant Woman, Marine’s Suicide May Be Linked
Los Angeles police are investigating possible links between an El Toro Marine who apparently committed suicide in Sutter County last week and the murders of a former Marine and her fetus found burned in a parking garage at Los Angeles International Airport.
The body of Stacey Janell Horst, 29, of Huntington Beach was found badly charred and still attached to her near-term fetus by the umbilical cord on April 15.
Detectives plan to release information today on the possible links of former Lance Corporal Jonathan Antoine Davis, 21, to her killing, officials said.
Davis, a military police dispatcher at the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, last reported for duty on May 15, said base spokesman Sgt. Matthew Fitzgerald. The Sacramento native had been living on the base since July 1994 with his wife and 4-year-old son.
His “unauthorized absence” was reported the following morning, the same day he was found dead of what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The fire in the airport parking garage was so intense that the car’s vehicle identification number was melted off and Horst’s body was charred beyond recognition.
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