Last Week She Was a Hostage, Now a Murder Victim, CA
Feb 20, 2007 6:15 pm US/Pacific Last Week She Was A Hostage, Now A Murder Victim (CBS) LODI, Calif. Authorities say a woman who escaped an apparent hostage situation last week orchestrated by her boyfriend in Kings County has been found dead Tuesday morning at a gas station near Lodi. San Joaquin County sheriff's deputies found 30-year-old Jennifer Buschell's body at a gas station near Interstate five and Interstate 12. Authorities also named 26-year-old David Brian Bernal as a suspect. Kings County sheriff's deputies spent more than seven hours outside a home off Highway 43 in northern Kings County Friday where they thought Bernal was holding Buschell with a shotgun. Deputies later entered the home and found it empty. Buschell was found unharmed later Friday, but Bernal remained at large. http://cbs2.com/local/local_story_051211525.html