The son of Creedence Clearwater Revival drummer Doug Clifford has been accused of killing his California girlfriend who disappeared six days earlier than her suspected physique was found off a freeway in Nevada.
Brent Clifford, 55, was booked into South Placer County Jail on a murder cost in connection to the loss of life of Patricia Portella-Wright, who was reported lacking after not exhibiting up for work on Aug. 9, ABC10 reported.
Portella-Wright, 48, was final seen 5 days earlier on the morning of Aug. 4, in response to the Placer County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Police and search and rescue squads recovered a physique believed to be Portella-Wright’s in an embankment off Mount Rose Freeway in Washoe County, Nev. on Thursday.
“By investigation we obtained data that led us to the realm of Mt Rose Freeway. Utilizing a drone we have been in a position to find the physique of a feminine down a steep embankment,” the sheriff’s workplace stated.
Police, who “tentatively recognized” the physique as Portella-Wright, have been ready on affirmation from the Washoe County Coroner’s Workplace.
They haven’t recognized a motive behind the killing, however stated there may be “obvious foul play concerned.”
Cops had recognized Clifford as an individual of curiosity in Portella-Wright’s disappearance as they are saying she was final seen along with her boyfriend.
Clifford was additionally named an individual of curiosity in a murder in Reno, Nev. after the Reno Police Division stated he traveled to the town from the Tahoe space on Aug. 9 to go to a good friend, the Reno Gazette Journal reported.
William Andrews, 68, was discovered with a gunshot wound to the pinnacle on the 1300 block of Keystone Avenue in Reno, in response to police and ABC 10.
Clifford is believed to have stolen Andrews’ crimson 2003 Chevrolet Blazer.
The automotive was later noticed driving westbound on Freeway 70 in Calif. main police to Plumas County, police stated.
Clifford was taken into police custody simply earlier than 4 p.m. on Aug.14 in Portola, Calif. a 60-mile drive northwest of Kings Seaside on an lively warrant for id theft prices associated to Portella-Wright’s disappearance.
He was charged with murder and booked into Placer County Jail after the physique was recovered.
Clifford is ineligible for bail, jail information seen by The Put up confirmed.
Brent Clifford is the son of Doug Clifford the founder drummer for Creedence Clearwater Revival.
The band, which consisted of John Fogerty, Tom Fogerty, Stu Cook dinner and Doug Clifford was first inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame in 1993.
They have been the primary main band to signal on to play on the 1969 Woodstock in upstate New York.
After the band disbanded in 1972, Cook dinner and Clifford shaped Creedence Clearwater Revisted, the place they carried out from 1995 to 2020.
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