Woman's body recovered off Billionaire's Beach in possible suicide
The Sheriff's Department says a 30-year-old woman found in the ocean east of the Malibu Pier may have taken her own life.
By Hans Laetz
The body of a woman was recovered from the ocean Saturday about a half mile east of the pier on Billionaire's Beach. The Sheriff's Department reports it was a possible suicide.
The woman was 30. KBUU Radio has obtained her name from public records, but we are electing not to report it at this time.
Police in Los Angeles had notified their colleagues in Malibu that they had a missing person report — a missing, distraught person who had mentioned Malibu as a possible destination.
The Sheriff's Homicide Bureau issued a statement: "based on a homicide investigation, coupled with the LAPD investigation, there are facts showing that this may have been a suicide."
The L.A. County Coroner says the woman was 30 years old.
If indeed this was a suicide, this would be at least the third person to take their life in a public place in Malibu over the last five weeks.
It appears there was a suicide on a trail in Zuma Canyon in October, and there was also a likely suicide along Pacific Coast Highway at a scenic overlook above Broad Beach last month.