Reward Grows for Leads in Student’s Death
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An additional $10,000 has been added to the reward for information leading to the killer of 20-year-old Christina Burmeister, a student at Cal Poly Pomona.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted 4 to 0 on Tuesday to match two other reward offers, bringing the total to $30,000.
Burmeister, a Cerritos resident, was found stabbed to death in her pickup Aug. 18 on California 39 in the Angeles National Forest.
Sheriff’s Det. Phil Guzman said the money could make a difference in the case.
“It could be somebody has information and they’re motivated by the reward,” he said. “It does help.”
An ATM surveillance camera photographed a hooded figure withdrawing $400 from Burmeister’s account at a Washington Mutual bank in Montclair about an hour and a half after she was last seen.
She was expected at a party on the night of Aug. 17 at a Cal Poly Pomona fraternity. She left home at 10:30 p.m. but never arrived.
The other two rewards were posted by Washington Mutual and the city of Cerritos.
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