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JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK — Hikers found human bones in the Stubbe Springs Loop area of Joshua Tree National Park Thursday, spokesman George Land said.
Investigators from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department went to the scene with park rangers and collected the remains and other evidence for testing and analysis by forensic specialists.
The identity of the person is unknown.
At the coroner’s facility in Indio, the bones will undergo a series of forensic tests, Sgt. N. Rissi said.
Rissi did not know by Monday exactly which bones were found, and said that information might not be released by the coroner.
Human bones found in Joshua Tree National ParkThere is one person known to have gone missing in Joshua Tree National Park who was never found. Bill Ewasko, a 65-year-old from Georgia, went missing in June 2010.
Ewasko left his rental car at the Juniper Flats backcountry board, which is a little less than two miles from the Stubbe Springs Loop Trail entrance, on June 24, 2010. He was reported missing the next day after he did not check in by phone with his girlfriend. The national park launched an intensive search that lasted about a month, and over the years, volunteers from various search-and-rescue backgrounds have continued to hike through the park looking for Ewasko.