Detectives with the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office are investigating a homicide after a Las Vegas woman was found dead in a cardboard box east of Kingman.

In a statement posted to Facebook, the sheriff’s office said deputies responded to a remote desert area near Windmill Ranch Road on Sept. 5 after a property owner reported finding a suspicious package in a wash. The man told authorities he believed the large cardboard box contained a body.

Another person at the scene told deputies he had seen a vehicle near the wash with its trunk open the night before, but it was too dark to identify the car, according to the post.

Detectives confirmed there was a dead woman inside the box. The victim was later identified through fingerprints as 57-year-old Carolyn Ann Bosher, a transient from Las Ve

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