Deputies Seek Clues in Death of Woman Abducted From Garage

Sheriff’s deputies were searching for leads Sunday in the kidnapping and murder of a 48-year-old Lynwood woman--a mother of four--who was accosted in the garage of her apartment complex and found dead hours later on a horse trail outside the city of Industry.

Witnesses said Teresa Soto Magana had arrived home from her job cleaning offices at about 3:30 a.m. Saturday and was forced into her 1987 Buick Somerset by two men who trapped her inside the garage.

Sheriff’s spokeswoman Debra Glafkides said no motive had been determined.

Neighbors in the small complex in the 3600 block of Norton Avenue said the woman usually dropped off a few co-workers at their homes after her 2 a.m. shift, so a 3:30 a.m. arrival was not unusual.

They remained shaken by the incident early Sunday.

‘It could have happened to a lot of people who live here” said a neighbor who declined to give her name but said she witnessed the kidnapping. “A lot of people come home from work late at night here.”