{"id":256525,"date":"2026-04-07T23:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256525\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T23:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:20:07","slug":"investigation-continues-into-human-remains-found-during-long-beach-easter-egg-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256525\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation Continues Into Human Remains Found During Long Beach Easter Egg Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The remains were found by children during an Easter egg hunt held on Sunday at city-owned DeForest Park, a 50-acre parcel not far from both the 710 Freeway and the Los Angeles River that includes wetlands and walking\/biking trails.<\/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 said off-camera that what appeared to be the skull and some bones of a small child were discovered while children were searching for Easter eggs.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted, the medical examiner&#8217;s office confirmed that a skull and jaw were recovered from the scene, but said that an examination of the remains has yet to occur.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no timeframe as to when, or if, an identification will be made,&#8221; the office said in a statement. &#8220;It may take months or longer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Currently in question is whether the case will be investigated as a murder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is going to be pending the medical examiner&#8217;s findings,&#8221; Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman Andrea Moran told Patch.<\/p>\n<p>Although the remains were found at a city-owned park, Sunday&#8217;s egg hunt had been a private event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was not city-sponsored or hosted; it was just a family doing an Easter egg hunt,&#8221; Moran said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The remains were found by children during an Easter egg hunt held on Sunday at city-owned DeForest Park,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-256525","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\/256525","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=256525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}