Linda Chavez was 23 when her body was found on the afternoon of September 1, 1999, in an orange grove near Tyler and Victoria streets in Riverside, California. She had been reported missing on August 27, 1999. The discovery showed Chavez’s body had been badly burned, and investigators treated her death as a homicide.

Chavez was originally from Compton. Riverside law enforcement, including the Police Department’s Cold Case Unit, worked the investigation but no arrests were ever announced and the killer has not been identified. The case remains unsolved and is listed among Riverside’s cold cases.

If anyone has information about Chavez’s disappearance or the events around late August 1999 in that area, please come forward to assist the ongoing search for justice.