Help Sought in Finding High Desert Woman

Sheriff’s investigators are seeking the public’s help in finding a 34-year-old Lancaster woman who they fear has met with foul play.

Renee Elizabeth Mullins has not been seen or heard from since Sunday when neighbors reported hearing a struggle in her apartment about 3 a.m.

Alerted by neighbors, deputies from the Los Angles County Sheriff’s Department checked the apartment in the 43300 block of 16th Street in Lancaster and found it ransacked, Lt. John Crabb said.

“It looked like a struggle took place,” Crabb said Tuesday. “They found a broken necklace and a screen had been removed from a window.”

The body of a woman was found in nearby Palmdale about 2 p.m. Tuesday. The body had not been identified but Sgt. David Halm said investigators have not ruled out the possibility that the woman was Mullins.

Halm said the search for Mullins was continuing and her name had been entered into a national missing persons computer bank.

She is described as 5 feet, 5 inches tall, weighing about 115 pounds with strawberry blond hair. She was last seen wearing black jeans and a short-sleeved blouse. She was also wearing a dental retainer.