{"id":259776,"date":"2026-04-09T19:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/259776\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T19:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:02:08","slug":"skull-jaw-bone-found-during-easter-egg-hunt-in-long-beach-confirmed-to-be-human-remains-press-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/259776\/","title":{"rendered":"Skull, jaw bone found during Easter egg hunt in Long Beach confirmed to be human remains \u2013 Press Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/2026\/04\/06\/possible-human-remains-found-during-easter-egg-hunt-in-long-beach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">discovered by a family during an independent Easter egg hunt<\/a> at De Forest Park in Long Beach on Sunday, April 5, were confirmed to be those of a human, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n<p>A skeletized human skull and lower jaw bone were recovered from the park Monday, a day after the remains were first reported to Long Beach police, and taken to the Medical Examiner\u2019s Office for further examination, authorities said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to the ongoing investigation into the death, limited information is currently available,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery was made at the North Long Beach park about 5 p.m. Sunday while children were looking for Easter eggs, according to police and witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>Police were initially called to the 5900 block of De Forest Avenue, while the Medical Examiner\u2019s Office said the recovery of the remains was made in the 100 block of East Osgood Street.<\/p>\n<p>The cross streets are at an area between the park\u2019s two softball fields and walking trails to the south.<\/p>\n<p>The remains have been assigned a case number, but no further information, including a possible identity, was known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remains discovered by a family during an independent Easter egg hunt at De Forest Park in Long Beach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259777,"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-259776","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\/259776","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=259776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}