This happened in 2019. Erin Valenti, 33, chief executive of IT at Tinker Ventures, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, was found dead in the back seat of her rental car, five days after police reported her missing.
The authorities then gave no details of the autopsy results or how long she was in the car before they found her. A spokesman for the San Jose Police Department declined to name the cause of death, citing an ongoing investigation.
Erin Valenti did not suffer from any mental illness, did not abuse alcohol and did not take drugs. She was due to turn 34 on Wednesday, and on Tuesday she was scheduled to perform at the Utah ceremony where she hoped to receive the IT Woman of the Year award.
Erin Valenti went missing on the evening of Monday October 14, 2019, after leaving the city of Palo Alto to catch a return flight from San Jose International Airport.
According to friends and acquaintances, nothing unusual happened on the day she disappeared. Erin met with a former colleague on the Sand Hill Road, to whom she said that she was looking for a car - a Nissan Murano.
Then she called her parents twice. On the first call, she said that she had found a car, that it was running low on gas and that she would be coming home for Thanksgiving. But the second call was very strange as Erin told her mother:
These were her last words.
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The San Jose Police Department said they found the body inside a car parked at block 6500 Bose Lane, just half a mile from the car's last known location, near the Almaden Highway and Camden Avenue.
Erin's parents assure that their daughter was absolutely normal, that her voice was not changed and they did not attach any importance to this statement, taking it as a joke. But then Erin disappeared.
At first, no one paid attention to this because everyone thought she was taking a vacation. But soon relatives and the police were involved in the search.
Moreover, Erin's friends, through their Facebook contacts, organized 1,500 locals to search the area, since neither Erin's phone nor the car's GPS data could be detected. It was only five days later that the police declared her missing, Erin's body was eventually found. Moreover, they found a car with a body on the street, which the volunteers had repeatedly combed and this car was definitely not there before.