A human skull may have created a murder mystery after it turned up on the steep hillside that burned above Sherman Oaks, and police and the coroner were called in.
Investigators were reportedly having a difficult time going down the steep embankment to determine if human remains are in the scorched three acres just below Mulholland Drive at Beverly Glen Boulevard.
Firefighters, police and a representative from the coroner’s office were at the scene in the 3500 block of North Coy Drive at midday Sunday, figuring out how to properly investigate what may be a crime scene on a steep embankment, said Officer Mike Lopez of the LAPD’s Media Relations Section.
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“There’s a possible human skull down an embankment,” Lopez said. “It’s very difficult to get to it.”
On Saturday, a brushfire consumed about three acres of medium to heavy, green brush. The fire was called in at about 3:40 p.m. Saturday to the North Coy Drive location.
Despite the fire’s slow movement, additional fire engines were called in, including two from Los Angeles County, Stewart said.
–City News Service