{"id":253635,"date":"2026-04-06T03:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/253635\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T03:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:46:08","slug":"investigation-ongoing-in-long-beach-after-possible-human-remains-discovered-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/253635\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation ongoing in Long Beach after possible human remains discovered, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation is underway in Long Beach after possible human remains were discovered in the area near DeForest Park and Wetlands on Sunday afternoon, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers told CBS LA that they were called to the 5900 block of De Forest Avenue at around 5 p.m. upon learning of the discovery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Due to the circumstances, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office is responding to the scene,&#8221; police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the investigation continues, police said that details would remain limited.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SkyCal flew over the spot where the investigation was taking place, and what looked to be the top of a skull was seen partially excavated from a dirt trail in the area. Two officers were seen covering the object with a canopy.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway in Long Beach after possible human remains were discovered in the area near DeForest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-253635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}