{"id":255145,"date":"2026-04-07T04:25:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/255145\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T04:25:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:25:47","slug":"human-skull-possibly-child-found-during-socal-easter-egg-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/255145\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Skull, Possibly Child, Found During SoCal Easter Egg Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 A Long Beach neighborhood is on edge after a human skull was discovered during an Easter egg hunt at a local park.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded to a report around 5 p.m. on Sunday at DeForest Park regarding the possible discovery of human remains, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, LBPD confirmed the remains are human.<\/p>\n<p>Per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/long-beach-deforest-park-and-wetlands-human-remains-discovered\/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBS Los Angeles<\/a>, family members told them off-camera that what appeared to be the skull and bones of a small child were discovered while children were searching for Easter eggs.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-04-05\/possible-human-skull-found-during-easter-egg-hunt-police-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Los Angeles Times<\/a>, the remains were found near the Los Angeles River and wetlands.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office responded to the scene to assist with the investigation. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday, police were still at the scene of the discovery as the investigation continued. Police set up a canopy over the site while investigators searched the area.<\/p>\n<p>No additional information was immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>Police said no suspects were in custody and the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 A Long Beach neighborhood is on edge after a human skull was discovered during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-255145","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\/255145","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=255145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}