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Mystery lingers after 30-year-old found dead, Arizona cops say. ‘Sweetest, kindest soul’

Grant Siefert, 30, was found dead Nov. 11 in Glendale, police said. Authorities are looking for his black 2011 Ford Escape.
Grant Siefert, 30, was found dead Nov. 11 in Glendale, police said. Authorities are looking for his black 2011 Ford Escape. Glendale Police Department

A 30-year-old man with the “sweetest, kindness soul” was found dead in a grassy water retention area in Arizona, police and his family said.

Now, police are trying to find answers.

Grant Siefert was discovered just before 8 a.m. Nov. 11 in the 5600 block West Peoria Avenue, the Glendale Police Department said in a news release.

He had been reported missing the previous day, police said.

Police responded to the scene began investigating his death as homicide.

Siefert went to the area late Nov. 10 or at about 1 a.m. Nov. 11, police said during a Nov. 21 news conference.

His vehicle remains missing, and police said they believe the suspect or suspects involved in his death may be driving it.

The vehicle is a a black four-door, 2011 Ford Escape with a temporary Arizona license plate 392635U.

“If anyone, anyone at all, was in that area, observed anything, heard anything, we please ask that they reach out to us and communicate that information,” police said.

Glendale police can be contacted at 623-930-3000.

“Grant was the sweetest, kindest soul to everyone he ever met. We will all miss him more than we can say,” his mother, Jennifer Siefert, said in a Facebook post.

Grant Siefert was also described as being “quick to make you smile with his silly jokes,” according to his obituary.

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Helena Wegner
McClatchy DC
Helena Wegner is a McClatchy National Real-Time Reporter covering the state of Washington and the western region. She’s a journalism graduate from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She’s based in Phoenix.
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