Officials Say Man Admits Killing Woman in Park

A man has confessed to fatally stabbing a woman whose body was found Monday morning in Crescenta Valley Park, authorities said.

Authorities said the victim was in her mid-20s and had lived with her parents in Altadena. They declined to identify her pending further investigation.

Brice Vilhauver, 24, of Pasadena, was detained before the body was found and later formally arrested and charged.

“He apparently told them he killed her,” said Chahe Keuroghelian, spokesman for the Glendale Police Department.

Vilhauver, who is unemployed, was dating the woman, according to Sgt. Rick Young of the Glendale police. The couple shared a residence within blocks of the park until three months ago, when the woman moved in with her parents, he said.

“We know that when they used to live in this area, they frequented the park often,” Young said.

The woman, who had multiple stab wounds, was found less than 350 yards from Honolulu Avenue just before 9 a.m., he said. She was fully clothed.

“We also discovered a knife at the crime scene,” Young said.

Police declined to speculate on the motive. Investigators did say that the woman was killed at the park rather than having been brought there after the slaying.

Crescenta Valley Park was closed Monday while investigators examined the crime scene. Police tape stretched across the park’s driveway entrances and officers, posted on footpaths leading to the site where the body was found, kept patrons away from the wooded slopes tucked into the foothills of the Verdugo Hills.