The woman, reportedly a mother, has been identified as Christine Chavez, 27.
She was lying in tall grass in Beard Brook Park in Modesto at about noon on July 8 when run over by a landscaper/employee driving a John Deere tractor with a pull-behind mower.
The unidentified worker said he didn’t see the woman until he noticed a body in the grass through which he had already made a pass, police said.