Missing Hikers Found Dead of Gunshot Wounds, and Locked in an Embrace
The bodies of the hikers, Rachel Nguyen, 20, and Joseph Orbeso, 22, who had been missing since late July, were found embracing
each other under a tree in Joshua Tree National Park, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.
Two hikers whose bodies were discovered last week in a steep canyon in a national park in Southern California died
of gunshot wounds, the authorities said in a statement on Friday, in what appeared to be a murder-suicide.
The area’s triple-digit temperatures made for a “very dire situation,”
and the condition of the bodies made it difficult to determine when they died, Ms. Bachman said.