Man found buried on Fallbrook property identified
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and last updated 2021-07-28 19:45:42-04
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Authorities Wednesday released the name of a homicide victim whose body was found buried two weeks ago on a residential property in Fallbrook.
Deputies unearthed the remains of 56-year-old Robert Pierce on July 14 while investigating a suspicious circumstance in the 400 block of South Ridge Drive, according to sheriff s officials.
Two days later, the man who owns and lives on the property, Nicholas Andrew Burg, 29, was arrested in Murrieta on suspicion of killing the then- unidentified victim, Lt. Thomas Seiver said.
Last week, Burg pleaded not guilty to a murder charge and other criminal counts in the case. At the time, Pierce was still officially listed as a John Doe.