BEAVER, Okla. – A body located in Beaver County, Okla., has been officially identified as London Valdez, 16, Hooker, Okla., according to a spokesperson for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.
“We still don’t know a cause and manner of death (for Valdez),” said OSBI Public Information Manager Hunter McKee. “We are waiting on a final report from the medical examiner.”
Valdez was reported missing by her family at 3:15 p.m., June 7, according to a family member, who said they called Texas County, Okla., dispatch center. The family called again that same day at 10:30 p.m., still looking for Valdez.
After the second call was made, according to the family, Hooker, Okla., Chief of Police Scott Headrick responded to talk to them.
Family and friends of Valdez distributed missing persons fliers throughout social media in an attempt to find the missing girl. Two male subjects, one a resident of Beaver County and the other a former resident who now reportedly resides in Woodward, Okla., were said to be not only the ones Valdez left with the last time she was seen by family, but also the last ones to be with Valdez.
In a press release in June from Beaver County, Okla., Sheriff S. Scott Mitchell, he said his office was contacted June 12, by officials from the Hooker, Okla., Police Department, the District 1 Attorney’s Task Force, and the Texas County, Okla., Sheriff’s Department, to assist in recovering a “deceased individual.”
The deceased, now officially identified as Valdez, was reportedly located in an area Southwest of Forgan, Okla., in Beaver County, five days after she had been reported missing.
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation was also requested to assist in the investigation, as well as the Oklahoma State Medical Examiner’s Office and the District 1 Attorney’s Office.
“I would like to assure the public that at no time was there or is there any threat to the safety of our citizens and communities,” Mitchell had said in the press release.
In contacting McKee, he confirmed that OSBI had been contacted.
“The OSBI was requested to investigate a suspicious death in Beaver County last week,” McKee said in an email dated June 16. “That individual (now identified as Valdez) has been transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for identification and to determine a cause and manner of death.”
According to Mitchell’s press release on June 12, this incident is currently still under investigation, and there is no other information available at this time. No arrests have been made in this case. If anyone has information on this case, they are asked to call the OSBI on their confidential tip hotline at 1-800-522-8017 or email them at [email protected]