STANTON
The Orange County coroner has identified a body found buried in the backyard of a mobile home last week as that of an 86-year-old woman whose son has been charged with her murder. The coroner used dental records to identify Kathleen Poindexter, who owned the home and shared it with her son, said Lt. Hector Rivera, a spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. The cause of death has not yet been determined, Rivera said.
Poindexter’s 62-year-old son, Robert Poindexter, was arrested Jan. 6 after investigators unearthed the badly decomposed body. The younger Poindexter had told neighbors that his mother was visiting relatives, but the park manager summoned authorities and told them that she had not seen the elderly woman for several months.
Robert Poindexter is being held at Orange County Jail in lieu of $250,000 bail. He is set to be arraigned Jan. 22.
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