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Latest article on Sheila: https://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/still-missing/Content?oid=7854764
A person canoeing on the Eel River discovered skeletal remains today near Stafford, confirmed Corp. Bryan Waxler of the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department.
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[UPDATE: Monday] Human Remains Discovered in the River Near Stafford Sunday
I haven't seen this news anywhere but Kym Kemp's site so far. I expect there will be more tomorrow. Stafford is not far from Rio Dell, where Sheila was believed to have disappeared. Thoughts and prayers with her family as they wait.
Also very near the spot Jackie Ray Hovarter dropped Danna Walsh's body.
Danna Walsh's remains were found within 24 hours of her being dropped. The tale is at CA - Danna Elizabeth Walsh, 16, Rio Dell CA, 24 August 1984
I was just noting a probable coincidence. Sorry if I confused you.
The family of Sheila Franks, who was reported missing in early 2014, received news that DNA from a human femur found in June of this year near Loleta matched hers. And, according to a family members of another woman who went missing within about a week of Sheila, Danielle Bertolini, the remains were found downstream from where Bertolini’s skull was discovered.
Any recent news?Sheila Franks, 37, vanished in Eureka in 2014, just seven days before Bertolini did. The two are the only ones of the five who have been found, tragically in the form of partial remains. Bertolini’s skull was discovered in 2015 north of Rio Dell. Police have determined she died by homicide. A femur bone belonging to Franks was located near Loleta at the mouth of the Eel River, just 13 miles away from Bertolini's skull, in 2019. Her death is considered suspicious. Both women had blond hair and blue eyes, and were of similar appearance and build, Maine's Bangor Daily News pointed out in 2014.
Who Are 'The Humboldt Five,' Women Who Vanished While In Northern California? | Oxygen Official Site
Any recent news?
I'm terrified of Humboldt for this reason. Lots of very obvious unprosecuted serial killers. I hope this place can get it's *advertiser censored* together someday. I don't like living here and it's getting worse. I don't go out without my husband and his guns
Sheila Franks and Danielle Bertolini
This last week, family of the two women joined with Detective Brian Taylor of the Fortuna Police Department. Taylor, who went to high school with the victim, has been the investigator on the Danielle Bertolini case since she originally went missing in 2014 from the Swain’s Flat area of Bridgeville. Like Fortuna Police, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has also kept Sheila Frank’s case open after she was determined to have gone missing within days of Bertolini.
In 2015, former Fortuna Police Department Chief William Dobberstein told Dateline investigators that “we have identified a person of interest in both cases and it’s the same man.” Over nine years have passed with few developments in either of the cases, which law enforcement consider potentially related.
While law enforcement have found partial remains of each woman over the course of several years, the evidence needed to tie either suspicious death to an assailant has proven elusive over time.
Seeking to reinvigorate the search for clues and witness information that could bring to light further details about the last known actions of Danielle Bertolini or of Sheila Frank – who they were with, where they may have been going, and what either of them may have been doing in the days prior to their deaths, the family of the two women came to Humboldt County and met with journalists.