{"id":283298,"date":"2026-04-24T05:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/283298\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:26:09","slug":"hiker-stumbles-upon-a-human-skull-near-twentynine-palms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/283298\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiker stumbles upon a human skull near Twentynine Palms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A hiker in San Bernardino County found remains later identified as a human skull on Wednesday morning, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The explorer was near Twentynine Palms around 7:30 a.m. when he came across the unidentified remains, <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/local.nixle.com\/alert\/12348531\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to<\/a> the San Bernardino County Sheriff\u2019s Department.<\/p>\n<p>After the discovery, the hiker placed an emergency call, and deputies from the sheriff\u2019s Morongo Basin Station confirmed the find and requested aid from homicide detectives.<\/p>\n<p>The department sent detectives from its specialized investigation division, who were joined by investigators from the coroner\u2019s division and other crime scene specialists, according to the Sheriff\u2019s Department.<\/p>\n<p>The skull was recovered during a search by the law enforcement group. Authorities said had been exposed for an extended but undefined period of time.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff\u2019s Department said it would conduct a forensic exam. DNA gathered at the scene is also being tested. <\/p>\n<p>A Sheriff\u2019s Department spokesperson said Wednesday night that if the skull is not identified, the remains would stay in evidence, waiting for someone to file a missing person\u2019s report. If it remains unidentified, the case would be considered cold.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff\u2019s Department is asking anyone with information to call (909) 890-4904.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hiker in San Bernardino County found remains later identified as a human skull on Wednesday morning, authorities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[15669,6577,12774,6246,6873,21172,121628,19082,121627,48,52,51,47,50,49,121629,12016,5518,2637,62519,1027],"class_list":{"0":"post-283298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-aid","9":"tag-authority","10":"tag-coroner","11":"tag-department","12":"tag-detective","13":"tag-division","14":"tag-emergency-call","15":"tag-hiker","16":"tag-human-skull","17":"tag-la","18":"tag-la-headlines","19":"tag-la-news","20":"tag-los-angeles","21":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","22":"tag-los-angeles-news","23":"tag-morongo-basin-station","24":"tag-remain","25":"tag-san-bernardino-county","26":"tag-sheriff","27":"tag-twentynine-palms","28":"tag-wednesday-morning"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283298","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=283298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}