{"id":104055,"date":"2024-01-31T12:03:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T12:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/human-skeletal-remains-found-just-off-trail-in-joshua-tree-national-park\/"},"modified":"2024-01-31T12:03:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T12:03:40","slug":"human-skeletal-remains-found-just-off-trail-in-joshua-tree-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/human-skeletal-remains-found-just-off-trail-in-joshua-tree-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Human skeletal remains found just off trail in Joshua Tree National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/01\/JoshuaTree_1706686625217_hpMain.jpg\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>National Park Service<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; Human skeletal remains have been discovered just off of a trail in Joshua Tree National Park, police say.<\/p>\n<p>The grisly discovery happened last Thursday at approximately 12:08 p.m. when the Riverside County Sheriff\u2019s Office received a call after somebody discovered human skeletal remains in Twentynine Palms, a region on the northern side of the park some 90 miles east of San Bernardino, California, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFederal Park Rangers were alerted to the discovery by researchers and requested the Riverside County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Riverside County Coroner\u2019s Bureau to respond,\u201d according to a statement from the Riverside County Sheriff\u2019s Office detailing the incident. \u201cThe Coroner\u2019s Bureau arrived at the scene and assumed the investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The identity and the cause of death of the deceased is currently unknown and authorities did not say how long they thought the remains could have been in the area for.<\/p>\n<p>One of California&#8217;s most popular outdoor tourist destinations, Joshua Tree National Park is open 24 hours a day year round, covers more than 1,200 square miles and has over three million visitors each year.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into this case is currently ongoing and the Riverside County Sheriff\u2019s Office is asking anyone with any additional information to contact Palm Desert Sheriff\u2019s Station (760) 836\u20131600 or call anonymously at (760) 341-STOP (7867) and reference incident # O240250071.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Park Service (NEW YORK) &#8212; Human skeletal remains have been discovered just off of a trail in Joshua Tree National Park, police say. The grisly discovery happened last Thursday at approximately 12:08 p.m. when the Riverside County Sheriff\u2019s Office received a call after somebody discovered human skeletal remains in<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/human-skeletal-remains-found-just-off-trail-in-joshua-tree-national-park\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}