by Long Beach (AP)
The dismembered body of a young man was found Wednesday in a trash dumpster at a service station here only two days after another young man’s body was found in a dumpster in Agoura The body found in three separate trash bags Wednesday was :not immediately identified Coroner’s officials said an autopsy would be conducted Thursday Investigators said the dead youth was a white male in his late teens or early 20s No other details were immediately available The body found Monday was identified as Donald Ray Hyden 15 of Hollywood He had been stabbed to death and possibly sexually molested before being placed in the dumpster on Liberty Canyon Road just north of the Ventura Freeway. Stanley Beckman Sheriff’s officers said they would be checking with Long Beach police to see whether the two murders might be related The Hyden murder is already being considered possibly part of a series that includes two other killings over the past few months Beckman said Both other murders involved young men who were stabbed to death and left nude in the Agoura-Malibu area On May 28 the nude body of 13-year-old Thomas Glen Lundgren of Reseda was found off Mulholland Highway about a mile west of Las Virgenes Road He had been stabbed several times and was sexually mutilated investigators said Trash-bag murders. Long Beach police officers check trash bag containing remains of a human body The body of a young male Caucasian was found by an attendant behind a Long Beach service station Wednesday.