The body of a missing woman was discovered hidden behind a secret wall in a hoarder-style house.

Renia Lewis, 28, was reported missing to the Vallejo Police Department in California on Sunday, and officers went to a home on 14th Street following leads that she may have been there before vanishing.

Officers entered the Vallejo residence and carried out ‘a welfare check and a cursory search of all rooms, closets, and places a person could hide’, but did not find Lewis, according to the police department.

The next day, the police department’s community engagement team requested an Ebony Alert, which is a statewide system to issue messages on suspicious or unexplained disappearances of black people. The California Highway Patrol approved the alert, although Lewis’ case did not meet the requ

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