Remains found near Hollywood still unidentified
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January 21, 2012, Saturday
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A search for more human body parts in a secluded hiking spot within sight of the famed "Hollywood" sign has ended, but the mystery is far from over.
The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office was attempting to identify the remains - a severed head, feet and hands - found in Bronson Canyon Park. Police, meanwhile, searched for a motive and the person or persons who dismembered and hid the body. No arrests had been made as of late Thursday.
Police believe the unidentified man is between 40 and 60 years old. They also believe the body parts, found by a dog walker who let one of her animals off the leash, had been there a few days. The head was found Tuesday, the feet and hands on Wednesday.
The coyotes that roam the area in packs at night would have destroyed the remains if they had been there longer than a few days, authorities said.
"If it had not been for the dog walker, we might never have found it," police Commander Andrew Smith said on Thursday.
As if to make Smith's point, a coyote strolled by a hillside at that moment, stopping no more than 27 meters away and turning its head curiously toward the assembled reporters as the officer continued to speak.
As 120 officers and firefighters on foot and horseback fought their way through 3 hectares of brush this week looking for the victim's torso, some searchers used ropes to rappel into a steep drainage culvert.
Coroner's investigators will try to identify the man through fingerprints and, if that doesn't work, search DNA databases and dental records.
Police are still searching for a motive, reviewing hundreds of theories provided by both detectives and local residents.
They don't believe this case is connected to a torso Arizona police found January 6. That was too long ago for the parts to have survived in their current condition.
The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office was attempting to identify the remains - a severed head, feet and hands - found in Bronson Canyon Park. Police, meanwhile, searched for a motive and the person or persons who dismembered and hid the body. No arrests had been made as of late Thursday.
Police believe the unidentified man is between 40 and 60 years old. They also believe the body parts, found by a dog walker who let one of her animals off the leash, had been there a few days. The head was found Tuesday, the feet and hands on Wednesday.
The coyotes that roam the area in packs at night would have destroyed the remains if they had been there longer than a few days, authorities said.
"If it had not been for the dog walker, we might never have found it," police Commander Andrew Smith said on Thursday.
As if to make Smith's point, a coyote strolled by a hillside at that moment, stopping no more than 27 meters away and turning its head curiously toward the assembled reporters as the officer continued to speak.
As 120 officers and firefighters on foot and horseback fought their way through 3 hectares of brush this week looking for the victim's torso, some searchers used ropes to rappel into a steep drainage culvert.
Coroner's investigators will try to identify the man through fingerprints and, if that doesn't work, search DNA databases and dental records.
Police are still searching for a motive, reviewing hundreds of theories provided by both detectives and local residents.
They don't believe this case is connected to a torso Arizona police found January 6. That was too long ago for the parts to have survived in their current condition.
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