Autopsy Set For Possible Bear Victim
New Mexico Woman Found Dead In Home Bear Visited
POSTED: 7:15 a.m. MDT August 20, 2001
CLEVELAND, N.M. -- An autopsy was scheduled Monday on a New Mexico woman found dead in her home after a black bear intrusion.
Game and Fish Department officers have killed the bear over the weekend that they said had been inside a house where the 93-year-old woman was found dead.
The victim lived alone in the Mora County village of Cleveland.
She was identified as Adelia Maestas Trujillo.
However, an official with the department said it still wasn't known if the 250-pound adult male bear killed the woman.
Trujillo's body was found by a neighbor.
Wildlife officer said that evidence found on the bear indicated that it had been in the woman's house.
The victim lived alone in the Mora County village of Cleveland.
She was identified as Adelia Maestas Trujillo.
However, an official with the department said it still wasn't known if the 250-pound adult male bear killed the woman.
Trujillo's body was found by a neighbor.
Wildlife officer said that evidence found on the bear indicated that it had been in the woman's house.
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