2 Bodies Found in Missing Couple’s Car
Two bodies were found inside a car registered to an elderly couple who have been missing for almost a month, authorities said.
Sumio Takehara, 82, and Betty Takehara, 81, were reported missing Aug. 12 by their daughter, who said the couple were last seen leaving home in their silver Toyota Camry.
A California Highway Patrol spokesman said a resident walking his dogs spotted the car Monday at the bottom of a brush-filled gully near Harbison Canyon, east of El Cajon. Authorities say the bodies of a man and a woman were inside the car, which was lying on its roof at the bottom of a 230-foot embankment.
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