Arizona authorities say the body of a missing woman has been found after she was last seen alive over a month ago.
The La Paz County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that they recovered the body of 26-year-old Amanda Nenigar.
She was reported missing outside the small California town of Blythe near the Arizona state line.
According to the woman’s family and the sheriff’s office, Nenigar was found just outside of Cibola, Arizona, a town of under 300 in southwestern La Paz County.
Authorities said she was found by a search and rescue expert who spotted her body nude under a tree about 1.5 miles from where her car was abandoned.
Sheriff deputies are currently working to perform an autopsy to gather more information on what led up to her death.
No other information was immediately released.
Nenigar was last seen alive in Blythe on Feb. 28.
About a week later, her car was found abandoned in the rural Arizona desert south of Cibola.
While she lived near Blythe, she frequently drove to La Paz County, where other family members reside.
True Crime Arizona Correspondent Briana Whitney previously reported that detectives noted the way the car was found, which the sheriff described as bizarre.
“The rear end of the vehicle was on a large boulder,” La Paz County Sheriff William Ponce said.
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