Parents of man left dead in burned-out car in Tujunga still seek answers - LA Daily News
The asphalt still bears evidence of Jacob Burns’ slaying. There’s the black outline in the gravel where his car was engulfed in flames one spring day in 2012. Hard melted globs of steel and red plastic from his 1992 Honda Prelude’s bumper and taillights remain embedded on Sister Elsie Drive. Darrell Burns comes to this spot now and then, to trace the asphalt with his fingers. He has asked the same questions for the past three years: How did his son end up here, on a steep, remote road in Tujunga, inside his own burning car. What happened to Jacob Burns between the time he left home in San Gabriel on a Saturday morning and 2 p. m. , the approximate time his car was reported ablaze. Who killed him and why did they set his car on fire in broad daylight. “I want all the answers,” Darrell Burns said one recent day while visiting the site, where homes are set on hills high above Sister Elsie Drive. His family and police are no closer to finding out why he was killed and who did it. What they and police do know is there was nothing in Burn’s past that would have tied him to the kind of people who would kill him in such a manner. On March 31, 2012, the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a call of a car burning on the narrow, twisting road. Source: www.dailynews.com
