Los Angeles County Sheriff’s investigators are seeking the public’s help in obtaining information about the 2022 slaying of a young mother who was stabbed multiple times and later burned.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff said Thursday that Karla Terron, 27, met her friend on Dec. 16, 2022, at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3834 in San Fernando. She later went to a home in San Fernando, where she was killed.
Sheriff’s officials said her body is believed to have been transported to Bakersfield in the trunk of a white 2021 Honda CRV. The car was later found and impounded, and DNA evidence found inside was traced back to Troon.
Anyone who may have seen this vehicle on Dec. 17, 2022 at the VFW Post on Knox Street in San Fernando or near Bakersfield is asked to contact Sheriff’s Homicide Investigators.
“We want people to have the courage to come forward and help investigators identify the information they are seeking,” Detective Michael Modica said Thursday at a news conference outside the VFW Post attended by Troon’s family. “This information will help make this case stronger.”
Theron’s body was found at the Hoskins Road exit of Highway 99 around 5 a.m., a day after she was found in the VFW Post. While her body was engulfed in flames, an autopsy report showed she had been stabbed multiple times, according to homicide investigators.
Modica said there are second- and third-hand accounts that witnesses heard gunshots on Knox Street the night Troon was last seen alive. Her phone has never been found since her death.
Investigators have not provided any information about the owner of the Honda CRV but are asking the public to come forward with any information relevant to the investigation.
Modica said Thrun was a mother of two and worked as a waitress at a nearby restaurant. Investigators have “persons of interest” in the case but have not disclosed how they are connected to the case.
Anyone with information about this case is asked to contact homicide investigators at (323) 890-5500.
