STRANGE – In California, law enforcement is faced with a particularly intriguing case. For several days, the police have been trying to understand how a couple, their baby and their dog died in a forest.
Antoine Llorca with AFP –
Nothing to explain their death. The mystery remained on Monday on the death of a couple of hikers, their one-year-old baby and their dog, found lifeless last week in northern California. On August 16, the family’s nanny, worried about finding their home unoccupied, alerted the authorities. The police quickly found their car at the start of a nearby hiking trail in the Sierra National Forest, not far from famous Yosemite Park.
By the next day, helpers located John Gerrish, 45, his wife Ellen Chung, 31, their 12-month-old daughter, Miju, and their pet in a remote area known as Devil’s Gulch. ). According to the daily San Francisco Chronicle, the man was seated next to her child and the dog while the mother was a little further up the hill.
Nothing conclusive during autopsies
“You arrive there and everyone is dead. There are no gunshot wounds, no medicine vial, not a single clue. It’s a great mystery.”Mariposa County Sheriff Jeremy Briese told the newspaper. According to several American media, the family’s autopsies did not reveal anything conclusive.
The three members of this family may have been dehydrated because the mercury peaked at nearly 43 ° C on the day of death. However, this seems unlikely as the emergency services found water in their possession.
Toxic algae?
Investigators are now trying to find out whether the victims have not succumbed to poisoning, either by carbon monoxide escaping from a disused mine shaft or by toxins released by “blue algae” proliferating in a course of water nearby. Toxicological analyzes on the victims are underway but the results should not be known for several weeks.
Nicknamed “blue algae”, cyanobacteria can develop in aquatic environments unbalanced by high concentrations of nitrogen and phosphorus, often under the effect of high heat. A “blue algae” alert was launched in this same area about a month ago with warning against swimming in this arm of the Merced River.
The California water control authority took samples from the waterway in question to detect the presence of toxins that could be responsible for the deaths. Until further notice, she recommends “keep away from algae and scum” and not to let children or animals touch the water in this branch of the river.
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