Thanks, cubby.
The news on this one, mostly comes out of her hometown, West Covina. The LVPD isn't pleading for information, and have interviewed her friends.
They're not releasing details about her employment, obviously for a reason (ie, the death is connected to that - or would embarrass the family).
I don't see a long investigation on this one. I could be wrong.
Our format here doesn't allow linking similar cases, but Michele's is one of three that have received publicity in the past seven months:
Dec 2010:
The burned female body found in mid-December, in Kingman Wash (on the Arizona side of Lake Mead, only about a mile from the AZ-NV border). That case got publicity, when the "missing dancer" was eliminated as those remains. I'm wondering if Michele's case is linked to the Kingman Wash remains, and if LVPD has other similar cases.
Websleuths discussion of case.
July 2009:
Here's one more: Charred female remains found not far from the Zyzzx exit off I-15 (not far from the CA-NV border) last July. Still not ID'd, per NAMUS
(click here) and
Websleuths.
That's three cases, in five months, in a pretty small radius.