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Neighbors and relatives estimate they last saw 62-year-old Samuel Wiggins Jr., a retired bachelor who lived alone in Diamond Bar.
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Wiggins’ nephew reports Wiggins missing to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
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Sheriff’s investigators intensify their search after Wiggins’ nephew discovers blood stains in Wiggins’ home.
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Wiggins’ ex-girlfriend, Carmen Montelongo of Riverside, is arrested in Ontario after she allegedly exhumes Wiggins’ dismembered remains from a relative’s backyard.
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Montelongo pleads not guilty to murder in West Valley Superior Court.
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Police recover the victim’s head and arms, which were concealed in large flower pots at the home of a Montelongo relative in Bell Gardens.
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Montelongo's son and daughter are arrested in Rancho Cucamonga on suspicion of being accessories to Wiggins' killing.
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A medical examiner rules in an autopsy that Wiggins likely died from multiple stab wounds.
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Prosecutors say Montelongo’s children won’t be charged with a crime.
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Carmen Montelongo, who pleaded not guilty, appears in West Valley Superior Court in Rancho Cucamonga. A preliminary hearing in the murder case is postponed indefinitely. READ MORE: Suspect in dismemberment killing appears in court