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The San Diego County Medical Examiner s Office on Wednesday identified the body found buried on a property in Fallbrook last week as 56-year-old Robert Berry Pierce.
Pierce s buried body was reportedly discovered last Wednesday, July 21, on a property along South Ridge Drive, south of Live Oak Park Road, belonging to Nicolas Burg, 29, according to the San Diego County Sheriff s Department.
Burg was arrested Friday in Murrieta on suspicion of murder and booked into the Vista Detention Facility, SDSO Lt. Thomas Seiver said.
The Medical Examiner s Office has conducted an autopsy but has not revealed Pierce s cause of death. His death was ruled a homicide and the SDSO Homicide Unit is still investigating the case.