{"id":479208,"date":"2025-12-30T04:16:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T04:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/479208\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T04:16:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T04:16:15","slug":"miguel-pilkington-2k-reward-offered-in-2004-case-of-man-found-dead-in-car-trunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/479208\/","title":{"rendered":"Miguel Pilkington: $2K reward offered in 2004 case of man found dead in car trunk"},"content":{"rendered":"

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PHOENIX<\/strong> – Twenty-one years have passed since a man was found dead in a car trunk, yet the identity of his killer continues to elude investigators.<\/p>\n

What we know:<\/p>\n

Forty-four-year-old Miguel Pilkington’s body was found on Monday, Sept. 20, 2004, at around 5:50 p.m. near Central Avenue and Tamarisk Street<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pilkington had been shot dead, investigators say<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The suspect, 21 years later, has been on the run since, and investigators need help finding out their identity, and what happened.<\/p>\n

What we don’t know:<\/p>\n

We don’t know the make and model of the car that Pilkington’s body was found in.<\/p>\n

What you can do:<\/p>\n

Silent Witness is offering a $2,000 reward to find Pilkington’s killer.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information should contact Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS. Spanish speakers can call Testigo Silencioso at 480-TESTIGO. Si tiene alguna informaci\u00f3n sobre este caso, llame a la l\u00ednea de Testigo Silencioso (480-TESTIGO, 480-837-8446). You can remain anonymous and may be eligible for a cash reward.<\/p>\n

Map of the area where the victim’s body was found<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Silent Witness<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Phoenix<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article PHOENIX – Twenty-one years have passed since a man was found dead in a car trunk, yet…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":479209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,6082,1588,50,1589,6166,29636,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-479208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-maricopa-county","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-series","16":"tag-silent-witness","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115806587171836166","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}