{"id":15555,"date":"2025-11-25T17:57:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/california-woman-found-dead-on-bisti-trail-in-san-juan-county\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:48:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:48:59","slug":"california-woman-found-dead-on-bisti-trail-in-san-juan-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/california-woman-found-dead-on-bisti-trail-in-san-juan-county\/","title":{"rendered":"California woman found dead on Bisti trail in San Juan County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e8c55e86-424c-5d6c-a3b6-efe9a6aec84b&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1504\" height=\"1034\" alt=\"The San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office is investigating the death of a California woman who was found Oct. 31 by a family of hikers on a remote trail in the Bisti\/De-Na-Zin Wilderness about 24 miles south of Bloomfield. (Google screenshot)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office is investigating the death of a California woman who was found Oct. 31 by a family of hikers on a remote trail in the Bisti\/De-Na-Zin Wilderness about 24 miles south of Bloomfield. (Google screenshot)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office is investigating the death of a California woman who was found Oct. 31 by a family of hikers on a remote trail in the Bisti\/De-Na-Zin Wilderness about 24 miles south of Bloomfield.<\/p>\n<p>Katherine Stukenberg, 81, of Hemet, California, was found wearing a red hoodie and had her purse and driver\u2019s license nearby, according to the incident report.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"naviga-map\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=36.309296460976%2C-108.02696008574&amp;z=15&amp;output=embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Map\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p>The body was found an hour\u2019s hike from a parking lot, where investigators discovered a silver Toyota RAV4, the report says.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the vehicle were two suitcases, one filled with women\u2019s clothing and the other with men\u2019s clothing, the report says.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff\u2019s detectives determined that Stukenberg was traveling with her husband, Gerald Francis Stukenberg, 86, who also was missing, the report says.<\/p>\n<p>A search party was organized to try to find Gerald Stukenberg, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Katherine Stukenberg\u2019s body was sent to Albuquerque for an autopsy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Husband missing; Sheriff\u2019s Office investigates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29,994],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-15555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-trueanthem"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19719,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15555\/revisions\/19719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15555"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=15555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}