{"id":255040,"date":"2026-04-07T02:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/255040\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T02:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:56:10","slug":"possible-human-remains-found-during-easter-egg-hunt-in-long-beach-san-gabriel-valley-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/255040\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible human remains found during Easter egg hunt in Long Beach \u2013 San Gabriel Valley Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A family discovered possible human remains during an Easter egg hunt in the area of De Forest Park and Wetlands in North Long Beach on Sunday afternoon, according to authorities and broadcast reports.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were called to the 5900 block of De Forest Avenue about 5 p.m. regarding the discovery, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The park, which includes a basketball court, two soccer courts, pickleball courts and two softball fields, borders the Los Angeles River. It was unclear specifically where the possible human remains were found.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office was helping with the investigation, with the office\u2019s forensic anthropologist team expected to assist, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The family told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/long-beach-deforest-park-and-wetlands-human-remains-discovered\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS Los Angeles<\/a> off-camera that children were looking for Easter eggs when the discovery of what appeared to be a human skull and other bones was made.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt first we saw the family there, doing like an Easter egg hunt, but they were freaking out a little bit,\u201d Marc Zaldana, who was walking along the path nearby, told the station. \u201cI can only imagine, like for them finding a dead \u2014 another kid. Must be tragic for them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A family discovered possible human remains during an Easter egg hunt in the area of De Forest Park&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,723,138,131,133,132,137,100,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-255040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","11":"tag-long-beach","12":"tag-long-beach-headlines","13":"tag-long-beach-news","14":"tag-los-angeles-county","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255040","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=255040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}