CA CA - Santa Clarita, Remains in Area of Tick Fire (Unrelated to Fire), PMI >1 year, Oct'19

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Date Body Found October 26, 2019
ME/C Case Number 2019-08046

Sex Unsure
Race/Ethnicity White/Caucasian, Hispanic Latino, Asian, Uncertain
Estimated Age Group Adult
Height Cannot Estimate
Weight Cannot Estimate

Location Canyon Country, California 91387
County Los Angeles County

Circumstances of Recovery Burned skeleton found on hillside after Tick Fire.

Condition of Remains Not recognizable - Partial skeletal parts only
Noted the exclusions:
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ETA:
Matthew’s WS thread: CA - CA - Matthew Weaver, 21, Santa Monica Mountains, 10 Aug 2018

Steve: CA - CA - Steven Bronson, 31, Long Beach, 27 June 2018

Will: CA - CA - William Cierzan, 58, Santa Clarita Valley, 26 Jan 2017 #3

Elaine: CA - CA - Elaine Park, 20, Glendale, 28 Jan 2017
 

The remains were found near the intersection of Sand Canyon Road and Thompson Ranch Drive, per officials.
“The only thing we have is that a public works employee was working in the area and stumbled upon this,” said Deputy Morgan Arteaga of the Sheriff’s Information Bureau.
The discovered body is not believed to be the result of the Tick Fire, according to Arteaga.
“The human remains are not burned as of this time, they were just remains found in a burned area,” said Arteaga, at approximately 3:10 p.m. on Saturday.
As investigators worked on the scene they said the public works employee had discovered a human skeleton that they believe to have been in the area for more than a year, according to Lt. Derrick Alfred, LASD Homicide Bureau.
“We don’t have any reason to believe that this is a victim of this fire or previous fires,” said Alfred. “It looks like the body may have been concealed up here or was here in the vegetation and after the fire, the body was revealed and found by the public.”​

 

The Tick Fire in Los Angeles County has spread to around 4,000 acres and 5 percent has been contained so far, according to an official notification by the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. There have been no reported fatalities or injuries so far. There are around 10,000 structures under threat, with the amount of damage and destruction still to be determined, according to a post on the official Twitter account of the Los Angeles City Fire Department.
 

Homicide detectives, meanwhile, were examining why human remains were found in a burn area near Sand Canyon Road and Thompson Ranch Drive in Santa Clarita, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. They later determined there was no connection to the fire.

It appears the remains have been there at least one year, according to investigators. They found large bones, including a skull and leg bones. “It looks like it probably was an adult,” said Sheriff’s Department Deputy Morgan Arteaga.
 

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