Husband Arrested in Death of Woman Found in Aqueduct

LANCASTER —  Sheriff’s homicide detectives Tuesday arrested the estranged husband of a Lancaster woman found dead in the California Aqueduct last August, authorities said.

Scott Glenn Mullins was taken into custody at his house in the 3300 block of 15th Street West in Rosamond, said Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Sgt. David Halm, a department spokesman.

Halm said detectives received information that pointed to Mullins as the killer of Renee Elizabeth Mullins, 34, but said he could not describe the evidence.

Renee Mullins disappeared Aug. 10, when her neighbors reported hearing screams and what sounded like a scuffle coming from her apartment in the 43300 block of 16th Street West. When sheriff’s deputies arrived about 3 a.m., they found the apartment in disarray and Mullins gone.

Her decomposed body was found four days later, caught in one of the aqueduct’s control gates.

Her friends and co-workers at Snow Orthodontics in Palmdale said at the time she vanished that she was fearful of her husband and had recently moved out of their home, leaving behind a 4-year-old daughter. They said she had intended to request a judicial restraining order against her husband, but no records of any protective order were found.