Image from OC RegisterThe body of Karishma Dhanak, 20, has been found along with her father’s body near an Irvine bike trail. Karishma’s home was set on fire, the cops think that this was intentional. Karishma’s mom Leela Dhanak was found unconscious in the driveway next door.
The 53-year-old woman, savagely beaten, lay unconscious on a neighbor’s lawn. When authorities arrived in Anaheim Hills late Monday, her home was ablaze. Leela Dhanak’s husband was missing. So was one of their daughters.
Several hours later, about 20 miles away, another blaze ignited. Authorities responding Tuesday morning to a small brush fire in an Irvine park discovered two burned bodies.
One was Dhanak’s older daughter, Karishma, a 20-year-old community college student. Investigators were looking into whether the other — too badly burned to immediately identify — was Dhanak’s 56-year-old husband, Jayprakash.
Jay and Leela were arrested a few years ago on account of mail fraud, but reports suggest that they were overall nice people.
They kind of struck me as the hardworking American story,” Bernardino said. “He didn’t dress particularly fancy, he didn’t drive a particularly fancy car, he wasn’t prone to wearing jewelry, he didn’t use drugs or alcohol that I know.
Our prayers are with Leela and Karishma’s sister Shayona.
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