Tragic Discovery: Mitt Romney’s Sister-in-Law Found Deceased Near California Mall

Mitt Romney’s sister-in-law has been found dead on a California street next to a five-story parking garage at the age of 64. 

The former presidential candidate and Utah Governor’s sister-in-law, Carrie Elizabeth Romney, was found lying next to the garage in the Los Angeles suburb of Valencia, according to the local coroner’s office.  

First responders arrived on the scene at around 8:30pm on Friday near the the town’s shopping mall and a local Hyatt Regency Hotel. The mall closes at 9pm on Fridays. 

Video footage from the scene shows police tape cordoning off the area as authorities conducted their investigation.

Footage showing law enforcement’s investigation saw police tape blocking the entrance to much of the scene.

Multiple police vehicles were seen responding to Romney’s death. 

Her cause of death was listed as ‘deferred’ while toxicology tests were pending, the Los Angeles County medical examiner. 

The investigation is ongoing, The Daily Mail has reached out to the LA County Sheriff’s Department and coroner’s office for comment. 

The Daily Mail has also reached out to Romney – also the former governor of Massachusetts – who has yet to make a statement. 

The two-time presidential candidate comes from a large family, with three older siblings and his wife Ann, who has two older brothers. The couple have five sons.

The Romney family is notoriously close and competitive, with The Washington Post once profiling the then-30 person brood’s annual family Olympics on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. 

Similarly, the former governor often championed his status as a family man when he ran for national office in 2008 and 2012. 

Mitt Romney’s lengthy career in Republican politics includes a defeat to Barack Obama in the 2012 general election. 

In 2008, he lost the Republican Primary before endorsing the eventual presidential runner-up, John McCain. 

He was also the only member of his party to vote to convict Trump of impeachment twice.

Romney served as governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and the junior senator from Utah from 2018 to 2024. 

He retired instead of trying to run for re-election, having said the country’s many challenges call for a younger generation of leaders. 

Romney said the U.S. would be better served if the two front-runners for their parties’ 2024 presidential nominations – Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican former President Donald Trump – stepped aside. 

‘The times we’re living in redemand the next generation step up and express their point of view and to make the decisions that will shape American politics over the coming century,’ Romney said in a news conference at the Capitol. 

He said baby boomers like him are ‘not the right ones to be making the decisions for tomorrow.’

Romney’s most recent public appearance came at a forum at Drew University in New Jersey in late September.