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Coroner's Office to determine Shayla Wingle's cause of death

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The Kern County Coroner's Office confirmed the body found in the Kern River Canyon last week is Shayla Wingle, the Bakersfield woman who was missing for a week.

Search and Rescue teams said air resources helped locate her body last Friday. Wingle's family confirmed to 23ABC on Saturday that the body was Wingle.

RELATED: Family members unite to search for missing woman

The Coroner's Office said Thursday a postmortem examination will be performed to determine her cause and manner of death.   

RELATED: KCSO looking for more information about woman missing since last Friday

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