MURRIETA (CNS) - Felony charges are expected to be filed today against a convicted sex offender suspected of killing a 47-year-old woman and leaving her body in a car abandoned in Vista. Michael Lee Lorence, 46, was arrested last week on suspicion of murder for the death of Melanie Conroy of Hemet. Lorence is being held without bail at the Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta.
According to Hemet police Lt. Michael Mouat, Conroy was reported missing on the afternoon of July 27 from her residence in the 900 block of Mellisa Drive, just north of Fruitvale Avenue.
Mouat said that within a day of her family filing the missing person report, they uncovered "evidence suggesting Melanie's disappearance was not voluntary.''
Homicide detectives took over the investigation, and on the afternoon
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