Burned body identified

The man found dead in a burning car in an orchard west of Chico June 11, later identified as 29-year-old Andrew Curbow (pictured), had a tumultuous go of it before his death.

On June 9, just two days before his body was found near the intersection of Marian Avenue and Dayton Road, Curbow, a husband and father of three, was charged with misdemeanor corporal injury to a spouse, cohabitant or child, according to Butte County Superior Court records. Further, a pretrial hearing for an unrelated misdemeanor petty theft charge was scheduled for June 19.

According to a post from his family on the crowd-funding site FundRazr, Curbow was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, an aggressive cancer of the blood, in February 2012.

Curbow’s cause of death has yet to be released by the Butte County Sheriff-Coroner’s Office.