{"id":25951,"date":"2024-08-26T17:42:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T17:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/body-of-arizona-man-79-found-near-lemon-reservoir\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:30:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:30:46","slug":"body-of-arizona-man-79-found-near-lemon-reservoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/body-of-arizona-man-79-found-near-lemon-reservoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of Arizona man, 79, found near Lemon Reservoir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=1050c3db-448a-47d0-88df-7c18a16489da&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1055\" alt=\"Emergency crews recovered the body of a 16-year-old Bayfield-area girl about 4\u00bd miles up a Forest Service road near Lemon Reservoir.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Emergency crews recovered the body of a 16-year-old Bayfield-area girl about 4\u00bd miles up a Forest Service road near Lemon Reservoir.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>La Plata County Coroner Jann Smith is working to determine the cause of death of a 79-year-old Arizona man whose body was found Saturday north of Lemon Reservoir.<\/p>\n<p>The cause and manner of death was unknown Monday morning in advance of an autopsy scheduled for that afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Smith was able to identify the man based on a driver\u2019s license but is not releasing a name until his family has been notified.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"naviga-map\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=37.464383802714%2C-107.68088011595&amp;z=15&amp;output=embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Map\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p>A man on horseback discovered the deceased\u2019s camp about a mile from the Transfer Park campground and returned Saturday to discover the body. The deceased was found outside his camp and the body was in a partial state of decomposition.<\/p>\n<p>Smith said based on initial observations, it appears the man died about a month ago. There were not any clear indicators of how he died.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-8de26c37eb7b07fdf05f378d92409048\"><a href=\"mailto:rschafir@durangoherald.com\">rschafir@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horseback rider stumbled upon the man\u2019s camp and discovered body nearby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[255,28,475,2892],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-25951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-death-and-dying","tag-headlines","tag-la-plata-county-colorado","tag-lemon-reservoir"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25951","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=25951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79167,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25951\/revisions\/79167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25951"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=25951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}