Identified! WY- Yellowstone Park Hot Spring, Abyss Pool, Foot (and shoe) found floating, 16 August 2022 - Il Hun Ro

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Foot (and shoe) found floating in a Yellowstone park hot spring

Park officials are investigating the body part discovery, spotted in Abyss Pool in the southern part of the national park

www.theguardian.com

''An investigation is under way after a Yellowstone employee spotted part of a foot, in a shoe, floating in a hot spring in the national park.

The discovery was made on Tuesday at Abyss Pool, in the southern part of Yellowstone, and led to the temporary closure of the West Thumb Geyser Basin and its parking lot. The area has since reopened.


Park officials are now investigating the discovery but did not have any additional information about what happened, said park spokesperson Morgan Warthin on Thursday.

Abyss Pool, located west of the West Thumb of Yellowstone Lake, is 53ft (16 meters) deep and the temperature is about 140F (60C), park officials said. It is on the south side of the southern loop through the park.''

 

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Yellowstone says foot found in hot spring linked to July 31 death

Officials in Yellowstone National Park say part of a foot found in a hot spring in the southern part of the park earlier this week is believed to be linked to a July 31 death.

www.cbsnews.com

''A part of a human foot found in a shoe floating in a hot spring in the southern part of Yellowstone National Park earlier this week is believed to be linked to a July 31 death, park officials said Friday.

While the investigation continues, foul play is not suspected.''

''Abyss Pool, located west of the West Thumb of Yellowstone Lake, is 53 feet deep and the temperature is about 140 degrees Fahrenheit (60 Celsius), park officials said.

At least 22 people are known to have died from hot spring-related injuries in and around the 3,471-square-mile national park since 1890, park officials said.

The most recent occurred in June 2016 when Colin Nathaniel Scott, 23, of Portland, Oregon, left a boardwalk in the Norris Geyser Basin, slipped on some gravel and into a boiling, acidic spring. No significant human remains were left to recover.''

 

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Yellowstone National Park officials have contacted the “presumed family” of the person whose foot was found in the Abyss Pool in mid-August.

But the park’s Public Affairs Office Morgan Warthin said federal investigators have not made an official ID of the remains. Warthin said that the park will not release more information until that happens, and until next of kin is formally notified.

“The investigation is continuing to determine the circumstances surrounding the death,” she said.

Yellowstone is leading the investigation and taking charge of identifying the remains. Teton County Coroner Dr. Brent Blue told the Jackson Hole Daily earlier Thursday that the park had “at least notified the presumed family” and Warthin confirmed later in the day that Yellowstone was “reaching out to presumed family members for this ongoing investigation.”

In Yellowstone hot spring foot investigation, 'presumed family' of victim has been contacted

Yellowstone National Park officials have contacted the “presumed family” of the person whose foot was found in the Abyss Pool in mid-August.

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Remains Found in Yellowstone National Park Identified​

A foot found at Yellowstone National Park belonged to a 70-year-old Los Angeles man, park officials announced Thursday.

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A foot found at Yellowstone National Park belonged to a 70-year-old Los Angeles man, park officials announced Thursday. Yellowstone National Park staff discovered in August part of the foot inside a shoe found floating in Abyss Pool, located in the West Thumb Geyser Basin, according to park...

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"Authorities conducted DNA analysis on the remains and determined they belonged to Il Hun Ro. An investigation into his death revealed that he died in an ” unwitnessed incident” on July 31 and that no foul play occurred."

Foot found floating in Yellowstone hot spring belonged to 70-year-old L.A. man

Yellowstone National Park officials said DNA analysis matched the foot, which was found in August, to Il Hun Ro, who is believed to have died July 31. No foul play is suspected.

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Remains Found in Yellowstone National Park Identified​

A foot found at Yellowstone National Park belonged to a 70-year-old Los Angeles man, park officials announced Thursday.

Remains Found in Yellowstone National Park Identified - MyNewsLA.com

A foot found at Yellowstone National Park belonged to a 70-year-old Los Angeles man, park officials announced Thursday. Yellowstone National Park staff discovered in August part of the foot inside a shoe found floating in Abyss Pool, located in the West Thumb Geyser Basin, according to park...

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Dead man whose foot was found in Yellowstone hot spring is identified

The circumstances of the death of Il Hun Ro, 70, at the Abyss Pool hot spring are unknown, but no foul play is suspected.

www.nbcnews.com

''Il Hun Ro, 70, of Los Angeles, died in the incident on the morning of July 31, the National Park Service said in a statement.
His foot in a shoe was found floating in the hot spring in Wyoming on Aug. 16.

No one is believed to have seen what happened, and how he died was not clear, the park service said. Investigators do not suspect foul play.

“Based on a lack of evidence, the circumstances surrounding the death of Ro remain unknown,” the statement said.''

 

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A missing man whose foot was found floating in a hot pool at Yellowstone National Park last summer left no suicide note in his car, investigators say, though officers have found his laptop, notebooks and handwritten poems, new documents reveal.

The documents were released on Tuesday by National Park Service officials in connection with the death of 70-year-old man identified as Il Hun Ro in November.

His car, a Kia Niro crossover SUV, was the only visitor’s car left parked near the Abyss Pool overnight.

Inside the car officials found his wallet with his driver’s licence and $447, a photo album, notebooks and a book of poems with handwritten notes, the documents said.

While the poems and notes weren’t written in English, investigators using Google Translate found nothing suggesting a suicide note.