51-year-old Rebecca Wells (KTLA-TV) |
DOWNEY (KTLA) -- Officials are still unsure how county worker Rebecca Wells was found dead in her cubicle, but they now know how her body went unnoticed for nearly a day.
L.A. County officials released a statement Friday saying that Wells, 51, was working in a largely vacant floor of a building at 9150 Imperial Highway in Downey.
Wells, an auditor for the Department of Internal Services, normally worked in East Los Angeles but was conducting an audit at the Downey location.
"Ms. Wells used a vacant cubicle on the second floor, in a row of unoccupied cubicles," according to a statement released at the time of the discovery. "This building contains a large number of cubicles, but no other employees were working directly in or around this row."
A fellow auditor was the last to see Wells after a meeting around 5 p.m. on Feb. 11 and said that she planned to work until 6:30 p.m.. She also called a family member to say she was working late.
Her body was found slumped over her desk by a security guard on Saturday afternoon after family members called the security office to say she was missing.
"I came in Saturday to do a little work, and I saw them when they were taking her out," co-worker Hattie Robertson told KTLA.
The exact time of death is not clear, but detectives say that, at worst, she had been dead for a day before her body was discovered.
Wells, a USC graduate, was a longtime compliance auditor, and had recently become a grandmother, according to co-workers.
Investigators have not determined the official cause of death, but they say foul play is not suspected.
L.A. County officials released a statement Friday saying that Wells, 51, was working in a largely vacant floor of a building at 9150 Imperial Highway in Downey.
Wells, an auditor for the Department of Internal Services, normally worked in East Los Angeles but was conducting an audit at the Downey location.
"Ms. Wells used a vacant cubicle on the second floor, in a row of unoccupied cubicles," according to a statement released at the time of the discovery. "This building contains a large number of cubicles, but no other employees were working directly in or around this row."
A fellow auditor was the last to see Wells after a meeting around 5 p.m. on Feb. 11 and said that she planned to work until 6:30 p.m.. She also called a family member to say she was working late.
Her body was found slumped over her desk by a security guard on Saturday afternoon after family members called the security office to say she was missing.
"I came in Saturday to do a little work, and I saw them when they were taking her out," co-worker Hattie Robertson told KTLA.
The exact time of death is not clear, but detectives say that, at worst, she had been dead for a day before her body was discovered.
Wells, a USC graduate, was a longtime compliance auditor, and had recently become a grandmother, according to co-workers.
Investigators have not determined the official cause of death, but they say foul play is not suspected.
