{"id":255900,"date":"2026-04-07T16:03:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/255900\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T16:03:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:03:23","slug":"human-skull-discovered-during-easter-egg-hunt-near-los-angeles-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/255900\/","title":{"rendered":"Human skull discovered during Easter egg hunt near Los Angeles | Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

The discovery of a human skull during an Easter egg hunt near Los Angeles<\/a> has prompted authorities to launch an investigation.<\/p>\n

At about 5pm on Sunday a family discovered the human remains during an egg hunt at DeForest Park in Long Beach, California<\/a>, according to local reports.<\/p>\n

Long Beach police confirmed the discovery to the Guardian, telling the outlet in a statement on Tuesday that the Los Angeles<\/a> county medical examiner\u2019s office responded to the scene and that \u201cthe remains have been confirmed as human\u201d.<\/p>\n

It added that the medical examiner\u2019s office would lead the investigation.<\/p>\n

In its own statement<\/a> on Tuesday, the medical examiner\u2019s office also confirmed the human remains, saying the agency had recovered \u201ca skeletonized human skull and mandible\u201d and that it was investigating the remains.<\/p>\n

The office said it had labeled the skull \u201cUnidentified Doe #196\u201d and had brought the remains to the agency\u2019s forensic science center for further investigation.<\/p>\n

Local residents expressed shock at the grim discovery, which occurred during a traditional children\u2019s activity. Fernando Guzman told ABC7<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019m sorry for whoever\u2019s kids that even saw that, you know? It sounds pretty bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, resident Gabriel Rivas said to the outlet: \u201cMy girlfriend and I walk past here all the time and run. We feel it\u2019s a safe trail so \u2026 [it\u2019s] surprising. I\u2019m going to have to think twice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s discovery follows a recent announcement<\/a> by California\u2019s Sonoma county sheriff\u2019s department, confirming that human remains discovered on a beach in 2022 belonged to a missing banker last seen in 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The discovery of a human skull during an Easter egg hunt near Los Angeles has prompted authorities to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-255900","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\/255900","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=255900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}