Linnea Lomax, 19. missing CA

[Lady Cop]

A 19-year of University of California at Davis student whose body was found last week more than two months after her disappearance committed suicide by hanging herself from a tree, her father revealed on Tuesday.

Craig and Marianne Lomax held a press conference in Placerville, California, to thank the volunteers who had spent months searching for their daughter, Linnea, who disappeared on June 26 after fleeing a psychiatric hospital.

Lomax, a college freshman, had been depressed and scared that she might fail a final exam at school.

Thrashing through the thick brush on the banks of the American River on Friday morning, Marianne Lomax got on her hands and knees, crawled through the bramble and came to what she called a "pretty place" alongside the water.

There, she found her 19-year-old daughter Linnea, hanging from a tree.

"I looked for two seconds and I knew it was her," recalled Marianne Lomax, wrapped in a prayer shawl and standing alongside her husband, Craig. "I believe God brought me to her, and there's closure because of that."

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