On Feb. 22, 2000, Genaro Perez, a 26-year-old Latino man, was found dead after being strangled. According to contemporaneous reporting and the Los Angeles Times Homicide Report, Perez was discovered in the trunk of a gray Ford Contour parked in the 14200 block of Chamberlain Street in the Pacoima area of Los Angeles. Authorities from the Los Angeles Police Department's Foothill Division handled the initial investigation.
Perez was identified by investigators and listed by the Homicide Report as a 26-year-old Latino male who died on Feb. 22, 2000. At the time investigators noted there were no obvious signs of external trauma on his body and that they were awaiting autopsy results to determine whether his death would be ruled a homicide. Det. Frank Bishop of the Foothill Division was cited in reporting about the case during the early stages of the inquiry.
Beyond the identification and the details of where and how Perez was found, public records and news coverage provide few additional facts about his life or about subsequent investigative developments. The contemporaneous accounts do not report an arrest, charge, or any definitive conclusion that the case was solved. Based on the sources reviewed, Perez's death remains unresolved in the public record: there is no reported arrest or public announcement closing the case.
Current status: unsolved, with no arrest or charge reported in the sources reviewed.
