On Oct. 23, 2002, 25-year-old Norma Ortiz was found dead at 930 Unruh Avenue in La Puente; Los Angeles County coroner records list the cause of death as strangulation. The county record archived by the Los Angeles Times identifies Ortiz as a Latino female, age 25, and notes the investigating agency as the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Little additional public detail about Ortiz's life or the circumstances leading to her death is available in the archived record. The coroner entry and The Homicide Report provide the basic incident data but do not include information in the archive about arrests, suspects, witness statements, motive, or subsequent investigative developments.
As of the information contained in the Los Angeles Times homicide archive through Dec. 29, 2023, this case remains recorded as a 2002 homicide with no publicly posted resolution. There are no arrests, charges, or closures noted in the archive entry. Anyone with information about Norma Ortiz's death is asked to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which is listed as the investigating agency in the coroner record.
