BURNED BODY FOUND IN ALPINE IDENTIFIED AS KIMBERLY HAYES OF LAKESIDE

By Miriam Raftery

March 14, 2014 (Lakeside) – A body found smoldering in a rural area of Alpine on Sunday, March 9 has been identified as Kimberly Renee Hayes, 35, of Lakeside.  

A Sweetwater Authority employee found Hayes’ burning body on a dirt road off the 17500 block of Sequan Truck Trail near Japatul Road shortly before 5 a.m.  The Medical Examiner’s office indicates that her death was a homicide. 

Hayes had worked as an emergency medical technician with San Diego Fire Rescue and at Scripps Mercy Hospital. She had a 14-year-old daughter.  But recently, she led a troubled life.

She  announced on her Facebook page that she had been released from jail just days before she was killed.  She served 10 days of a 40 day sentence but was released early due to jail overcrowding, she wrote.  According to  paperwork that she posted on Facebook, she was in a drug rehabilitation program. Her final posts, shortly before her death, revealed anger at "gangster haters" and and people she believed had been talking about her.

Older posts indicate she had recently suffered a broken relationship.  She had also lost friends to tragedy, mourning the loss of Tonya Trayer and Amy Heath, who died in a 2010 motorcycle accident with the Saddletramp bikers club in Imperial Valley.

After her death, friends posted tributes. One praised her as a “great and loving person.” Another wrote, “No more demons... no more pain, no more stress...no more choices to make...may your soul rest peacefully, my friend.”

Sandy Greeny, mother of Tonya Trayer, wrote, “Kim you are there with Tonya and Amy now no more bad things can happen to you. You will be missed by more people then you know.”

Trayer’s daughter, Sierra, posted, “I cant believe you are gone rest in peace baby girl and party hard with my momma♥”

If you have information in this case, you can remain anonymous by calling San Diego Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477.