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SAN FRANCISCO — The daughter of a missing Antioch grandmother has been arrested on suspicion of murder one day after investigators identified body parts scattered in Solano and Sierra counties as those of the missing woman. 

Kendra Bernard, 38, was arrested Wednesday at an ex-boyfriend’s trailer home in San Leandro.  

She is being held without bail at County Jail in Martinez, according to Detective Corporal Barry Delavan of the Antioch Police Department. 

A man found the head and other body parts of a woman last Friday near the Yolo County border in Solano County. The same day, a 13-year-old boy found the torso of a woman off the side of a road in Sierra County near the Nevada border – some 120 miles away. Deputies there found more remains. 

Realizing the remains might be related, police took them to Solano County for an autopsy Tuesday. 

Margaret Bernard, 62, a word processor with First American Title in Concord, was last seen at her job on April 13. She had worked there for about 15 years. 

Her relatives in Modesto filed a missing persons report Tuesday after they were repeatedly unable to reach their mother or sister by phone, said Margaret’s son, Phil Bernard. 

The Contra Costa County District Attorney’s office is expected to review the case Friday.