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Courtesy Lomax family
Linnea Lomax, 19, was last seen on June 26, 2012.
Updated 12:30 p.m. ET Saturday: A body discovered in Sacramento has been positively identified as 19-year-old Linnea Lomax, a distraught University of California, Davis freshman reported missing in June.
The Sacramento County coroner's office, which confirmed the body’s identity, said Lomax's death is under investigation, but foul play does not appear to be a factor, NBC television station KCRA reported.
The badly decomposed body was discovered 10:18 a.m. Friday near the shore of the American River by volunteers organized by the Klaaskids Foundation. It was in the Glenn Hall Park area, not far from where Lomax was last seen walking away from a mental health appointment, police said.
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“We are grieved to report that we have just received confirmation that our search for Linnea has ended in sorrow,” members of HelpFindLinnea.org said in a statement posted on its website. Arrangements for a Celebration of Life service are being made, the group said.
According to her parents, the teen suffered a breakdown while studying for finals.
Police say Lomax was last seen at 1 p.m. on June 26, leaving an outpatient therapy center off Howe Avenue in Sacramento. She was considered missing and at-risk due to her disappearance being "inconsistent with her normal behavior patterns," police said.
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She didn’t have her wallet or cell phone, Craig Lomax told NBC News in July. She had been prescribed medication for anxiety and depression, but she left her drugs behind, vanishing into California’s capital, he said.
Last month, a search party turned up a notebook belonging to Linnea Lomax near the American River bike trail.
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An honorable death. She took her life in her hands and left the world on her own terms. The rest of us should be so lucky when our time comes. Bon voyage, little damaged flower.
Good. One less worthless woman in the world.
Where's your compassion, idiot?
@Richard: Alex Butten obviously has as much compassion as he has brains. In other words, he's lacking both. Sad, really.
Her notebook turned up somewhere away from the "badly decomposed" body, yet no foul play is a factor........ only in America.
What a tragic story. But I can't help but wonder if this is like the case in Texas some years back when a guy was shot in the head three times with a pump shotgun -- and they ruled it a suicide because they didn't want to bother to investigate the crime.
so many comments from atheists that are cruel and hurtful Atheism has taken on the intolerance and bigotry of what we say is wrong with religion. I'm an atheist and I worry that atheism has just become another religion. I recognize I cannot prove there is no God; Just as religious persons cannot prove there is.
I was in her situation once with severe anxiety and depression. I was lucky - I found a very good doctor who recognized my symptoms and immediately put me on meds. and put me out on medical leave. The meds. worked and I was able to return to work...altho a changed person. It took me awhile to come totally back to myself but I did. Yes, suicide was definitely on my mind. But thankfully I didn't take my life.
May you rest in peace dear girl. My deepest condolences to the family.
I bet a pale redneck did it. In fact I know a pasty did it.
Another sick cracker raping or molesting girls, will the redneck sickness ever end?
There are a lot of cases that have surely been bungled lately. Police need to go over this with a fine tooth comb. As a parent I think I'd hire a PI first.
Condolences to her family... They are left with a wound that will never truly heal.
On a different note; why do people piss and moan so much on these things? They are argue about EVERYTHING and anything! lol I'll admit, it's pretty entertaining to see how worked up people get about comments being made on the net.
Her parents have my condolences! It is very common for some people to have a breakdown while they are in college. My daughter roommate had a breakdown this year. I had met her and her mom doing move-in week. My daughter and I exchanged phone numbers with her and her daughter. When my daughter told me what was going on with her roommate, I called her mom and told her. And, my daughter called her mom and told her also. Her parents came and got her and now she is safe with them. Parents please, if your child is going off to college, please try to get someone's phone number who lives close by them. Please! This could be a matter of life and death!
Damm college can kill you. Maybe that education isnt as valuable as folks make it out to be. nah she was probably a nut before attending school!