Maria America Munguia, a 31-year-old Latina, was found dead on Dec. 21, 2004, at 355 S. Alvarado St. in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles. According to Los Angeles County coroner records, her cause of death was strangulation. The coroner entry lists the agency handling the matter as RAMP.
Munguia was identified in county records as a 31-year-old female of Latino ethnicity. The location on South Alvarado places her death in the dense, residential and commercial area around Westlake and MacArthur Park. Beyond the basic coroner listing of date, location, age and manner of death, public archival records located for this review do not provide additional narrative about her life, family, occupation or the immediate circumstances that led to her death.
The available public record material examined for this profile is limited to the Los Angeles Times Homicide Report archive entry based on coroner records; there are no published follow-ups, arrest reports or public notices located that report an arrest, charge, conviction or official closure of the case. As of the records reviewed, the homicide remains unsolved with no report of an arrest or identified suspect in the public archive consulted.
