SURPRISE, AZ – A former Mason City woman was found dead in a burned-up pickup truck earlier this month in Arizona.
Police in Surprise, Arizona said that on Monday, June 9th at about 2:45 PM, Surprise police responded to the area of 219th Avenue and Sun Valley Parkway after fire department personnel discovered what appeared to be three bodies within a burned out vehicle. Fire personnel had been alerted to a possible fire in the area. Upon arrival, fire personnel located a vehicle burning. After extinguishing the flames, fire personnel located what appeared to be three burned bodies within the vehicle.
On June 25th, Surprise Police disclosed that they have learned the identities of the three victims whose bodies were discovered in the burning vehicle. Police have been actively working with Maricopa County’s Office of the Medical Examiner to determine who the victims are and how they died since responding to the vehicle fire.
After receiving the results of the examination and subsequent investigation by police, the deaths of all three victims have been classified as homicide. The autopsy revealed that each of the victims had been shot before being burned.
The victims were identified as Garth Tuggle, age 25 of Phoenix, Arizona, William Kling, age 41 of Wittmann, Arizona, and Lisa Baker, age 57 of Wittmann, Arizona. Lisa Baker graduated from Mason City High School in 1975 and attended Iowa State University before later relocating to Wittman, Arizona.
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