California hiker's body found naked in Big Sur backcountry

Hikers successful Big Sur discovered a woman's bare assemblage heavy successful the woods connected a fashionable hiking trail, according to section reports.

Authorities responded to an April 9 telephone aft hikers recovered the assemblage successful the Los Padres National Forest. In a connection released connected Monday, the Monterey County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) identified the pistillate arsenic 37-year-old Joanna Ruth Shields.

According to witnesses, Shields had aggregate injuries including a caput coiled and cervix cuts.

"I didn’t spot immoderate blood. She was pale. She had markings astir her neck. I don’t privation to accidental choking marks," 1 witnesser told KSBW. "And past erstwhile the firefighter lifted the jacket, helium confirmed that she had a large gash connected her head."

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Aerial presumption of Big Sur, the Santa Lucia coastal upland scope and the Los Padres National Forest, successful California, Dec. 19, 2013. (Reuters/Michael Fiala)

The hikers that recovered her besides claimed they encountered a antheral who claimed to beryllium the Shields' person and that helium "appeared to beryllium scared, tense and shocked."

He allegedly told the witnesses that helium recovered Shields bare and look down successful h2o aft being isolated from her for a fewer minutes.

MCSO is actively investigating the decease arsenic suspicious "because we don't cognize what the origin of decease is," Sheriff's Office Cmdr. Andres Rosas told Monterey County Now

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McWay Falls drops implicit an 80-foot cliff onto the formation astatine Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park on California Highway 1 connected Sunday, May 2, 2021 successful Big Sur, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times)

MCSO Coroner Tina Nieto performed an autopsy connected Shields connected Monday, but her authoritative origin and mode of decease are pending the results of toxicology tests.

Shields was an avid skateboarder and beloved successful the skating community.

Enjoy the quality of Big Sur with a camping trip. (iStock)

"Joanna was highly affable with everyone, and I don’t deliberation she had a azygous enemy," Brandon Devroede, a erstwhile co-worker of Joanna's and cognition manager astatine Evolve Skateboards USA, told FOX 5 KSWB-TV. "She was consenting to assistance everybody."

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