“This young woman clung to life when she was left for dead and was able to live for another couple hours and get us that information. Kelly, the sheriff’s sergeant, told reporters that Cuesta had willingly gotten into a car with Gross and Leonardo. The area is so remote that the UPS workers had to send other people who had gathered at the scene to an area where there was better cellphone reception to call police. When first responders arrived, they decided that the best option was to airlift the dying woman to a hospital with an advanced trauma centre. The sheriff’s sergeant told the Modesto Bee that investigators recovered a “tremendous” amount of evidence at the home, thanks to Cuesta’s dying declaration.

Source: thestar February 14, 2018 17:48 UTC