Las Vegas Sun

March 19, 2024

No cause found for death of woman in desert near Pahrump

California Woman Dead Nevada

Nye County Sheriff's Office / AP

This undated photo provided by the Nye County Sheriff’s Office shows Los Osos, Calif., resident Margay Edwards, 27, with her 2014 Hyundai Accent. Edwards was found dead on Sept. 25, 2014. near a dirt track outside Pahrump.

PAHRUMP — Medical examiners in Las Vegas couldn't determine what killed a 27-year-old California woman whose body was found in September in the Nevada desert.

The Clark County coroner's office said Monday that the cause and manner of Margay Kim Edwards' death remained undetermined.

Edwards was from Los Osos, California. Her body was found Sept. 25 by all-terrain vehicle riders near a dirt trail outside the Nye County community of Pahrump.

Her rental car was found nine days later, stuck in a ravine with a flat tire and bumper damage and two cellphones and a computer inside.

Investigators said Edwards last contacted her family in mid-September.

Nye County sheriff's Detective Joe McGill said Monday that foul play remains a possibility, but that investigators are leaning away from Edwards' death being a homicide.

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