By signing this petition you are asking that the Orange County Sheriff's Department take a closer look into Erica's murder, which has been left without justice for so many years. 

On the night of Valentines Day, 2015, Erica Melissa Alonso was at a nightclub with her on again / off again boyfriend, Larry Rivera, who had a long history of domestic abuse. The night appeared normal, but it was anything but that. By the next morning, Erica was gone. 

Her body was recovered on April 27th, just 73 days later, in a dry creek bed in the Cleveland National Forest just off the Ortega Highway in California. Based on the condition of how she was found, it was obvious she had been dumped there. It would have been impossible, based on her condition, for Erica to have gone there willingly.

The autopsy and toxicology reports stated that Erica had a BAC of .22 and a lethal dose of GHB (date rape drug) in her system. The Orange County Sheriff’s Department has ruled that her cause of death was an overdose and even said there "wasn’t enough evidence to suggest this was a homicide." But this just doesn’t add up. Erica’s car was found abandoned in a neighborhood more than 30 miles away from where her body was found. So how did she end up in that dry creek bed? Someone put her there. The Alonso family needs answers.

If this was an accident, and she did overdose, someone still broke the law by not reporting it. They hid her body, and with that, they hid the answers that we desperately need. 

Erica was a kind, funny, outgoing, and incredibly beautiful person whose life ended way too soon. She had dreams of becoming a mother one day and had a long bucket list of things she one day hoped to do. Erica was the victim of an abusive relationship, and the person responsible for this abuse was cleared by police way too quickly.