09-20-2011, 12:37 PM
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...1L6FQ9.DTL
...The decomposed remains were found by a volunteer - 10 days after Esteban's arrest - off a dirt path between Foothill Road and railroad tracks, west of Interstate 680 and south of the Castlewood Country Club in Pleasanton. The remains were found in the area where police believe Esteban dumped Le's body.
Cell phone records show that after Le disappeared from Kaiser Permanente Medical Center's garage, both women's phones "traveled on a similar path" to the Niles and Sunol Canyon areas in Alameda County, police said.
...Steve Clark, a former Santa Clara County prosecutor now a defense attorney, said Monday before the remains were identified, "If this is in fact Michelle Le" body, this is a huge piece of the prosecution case, because it then establishes Michelle Le is dead. They get over that hurdle. But it may be also that there's forensic indications of how Michelle died.
"They're going to spend a lot of time in an autopsy trying to establish cause of death," Clark said. "Now, it is difficult because the body has been gone for many months, but it is an important piece of the puzzle, and it's also something that the defense is going to want to analyze, to see if cause of death can be established - or lack of a cause of death. That's helpful to the defense."
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...The decomposed remains were found by a volunteer - 10 days after Esteban's arrest - off a dirt path between Foothill Road and railroad tracks, west of Interstate 680 and south of the Castlewood Country Club in Pleasanton. The remains were found in the area where police believe Esteban dumped Le's body.
Cell phone records show that after Le disappeared from Kaiser Permanente Medical Center's garage, both women's phones "traveled on a similar path" to the Niles and Sunol Canyon areas in Alameda County, police said.
...Steve Clark, a former Santa Clara County prosecutor now a defense attorney, said Monday before the remains were identified, "If this is in fact Michelle Le" body, this is a huge piece of the prosecution case, because it then establishes Michelle Le is dead. They get over that hurdle. But it may be also that there's forensic indications of how Michelle died.
"They're going to spend a lot of time in an autopsy trying to establish cause of death," Clark said. "Now, it is difficult because the body has been gone for many months, but it is an important piece of the puzzle, and it's also something that the defense is going to want to analyze, to see if cause of death can be established - or lack of a cause of death. That's helpful to the defense."
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...z1YVlZVBsP