UNSOLVED CA - Calabasas, Adult Male, skeletal remains on hiking trail, Sept’18

[Coffee56]

CALABASAS, Calif. - Homicide detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding the skeletal remains of a man found on a hiking trail in Calabasas on Wednesday, officials say.

The remains were said to be those of an adult male. A cause of death was not immediately known.

According to investigators, the remains had been in the area for an extended period of time.

Remains of man found on Calabasas hiking trail

 

[MelmothTheLost]

According to investigators, the remains had been in the area for an extended period of time.

What does "extended" mean in this context, I wonder? Months? Years? Or even decades?

Surely if they'd been there very long someone would have tripped over them before now.

 

[Coffee56]

What does "extended" mean in this context, I wonder? Months? Years? Or even decades?

Surely if they'd been there very long someone would have tripped over them before now.

So somewhere between ancient and a couple weeks I guess.

 

[cvaldez1975]

matthew weaver?

CA - CA - Matthew Weaver, 21, Santa Monica Mountains, 10 August 2018

 

[Coffee56]

I’m not sure where his car would be or if June is extended but

CA - Ca- Joe Garza, 76, Pico Rivera, 7 June 2018

 

[Coffee56]

matthew weaver?

CA - CA - Matthew Weaver, 21, Santa Monica Mountains, 10 August 2018

CA - CA - Matthew Weaver, 21, Santa Monica Mountains, 10 August 2018

It looks as though the family is saying it’s not him.

Or it’s being reported that family has said it’s not.

 

[Laughing]

Not up on Cali geography -- but Bob Harrod?

 

[KJ's Mamu]

William Cierzan? Only 32 miles from Santa Clarita, CA where William has been missing since 1/26/2017. His most recent WS thread: CA - CA - William Cierzan, 58, Santa Clarita Valley, 26 Jan 2017 #3

Will be posting in that thread as well.

 

[Satchie]

What does "extended" mean in this context, I wonder? Months? Years? Or even decades?

Surely if they'd been there very long someone would have tripped over them before now.

Apparently the bones were found somewhere near, but not on, the trail by a worker.

Impossible to know how old yet. I lived near a big park where human remains were periodically discovered. Those that were identified were all suicides or accidents. I recall one had been there since the 1980s. Of course, that was no where near LA, which is a different world.

 

[MelmothTheLost]

There's an Irish hiker named David O'Sullivan missing on the PCT, though the last evidence for him placed him in Idyllwild in April 2017.

CA - CA - David O'Sullivan, 25, Pacific Crest Trail, Idyllwild, 7 April 2017 Irish citizen

 

[Laughing]

Any news on this decedent?

 

[doyoulovemepfg]

Any possibility this could be a Randy Kraft victim?

 

[Ari_]

Not up on Cali geography -- but Bob Harrod?

Bob Harrod disappeared from Placentia, OC. Placentia is only around an hours drive from Calabasas. It's possible.

 

[Ari_]

There's an Irish hiker named David O'Sullivan missing on the PCT, though the last evidence for him placed him in Idyllwild in April 2017.

CA - CA - David O'Sullivan, 25, Pacific Crest Trail, Idyllwild, 7 April 2017 Irish citizen

Again, Idyllwild is only just over 2 hours from Calabasas, so none of these suggestions are out of the realm of possibility.