{"id":70173,"date":"2016-10-05T02:42:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T08:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/additional-remains-of-pagosa-springs-man-found\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T08:42:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T08:42:36","slug":"additional-remains-of-pagosa-springs-man-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/additional-remains-of-pagosa-springs-man-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Additional remains of Pagosa Springs man found"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=bbcc4e0c-ca89-4ba5-99a6-b90b3ed8a1c1&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1094\" height=\"833\" alt=\"Chacon\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Chacon<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Investigators believe they have found the rest of the human remains of a Pagosa Springs man whose body was found in August in a remote area east of the town.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archuletacounty.org\/95\/Sheriff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archuleta County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a> Undersheriff Tonya Hamilton said local agencies on Sept. 30 teamed with Colorado Forensic Canines to scour the area where some of 29-year-old Andrew Donald Chacon\u2019s remains were initially found.<\/p>\n<p>A crew of four dogs and eight handlers located more of Chacon\u2019s remains, which should help investigators learn more details surrounding his death, Hamilton said.<\/p>\n<p>Chacon\u2019s remains were discovered Aug. 23 along Mill Creek Road, about six to eight miles from Colorado Highway 84, east of Pagosa Springs.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, a coroner determined the most likely cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head, but it was unclear if it was self-inflicted or a result of foul play.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe Chacon\u2019s remains had been in the forest for at least a year. His family suspected he was missing, but they had not officially reported him as a missing person, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the investigation is asked to call Detective Sgt. Warren Brown at 264-8499.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Forensic Canines help in search<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[493,21,13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-70173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-archuleta-county","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70173","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=70173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70173"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=70173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}