Authorities in Southern California found additional human remains on Thursday, a day after a human leg was found on a beach near where an overturned ship carrying fishermen washed up earlier this week.
Palos Verdes Estates Police Department officers responded to a call around 8:20 a.m. on Christmas Day when someone discovered their appendix, Fox Los Angeles I mentioned.
On Thursday, authorities found a second human leg and femur bone, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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A resident walks past an area where ground disturbances lifted bentonite from beneath the ocean onto a rocky shoreline due to an ongoing landslide in the Portuguese Bend Beach Club neighborhood in Palos Verdes on June 21, 2024. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
The remains have not been identified. Palos Verdes Estates Police Captain Aaron Belda told the newspaper that the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office will attempt to identify the remains found and determine whether they are related to the capsized boat accident that occurred on December 23.
The two men went fishing on a small boat on Monday afternoon and were reported missing the next day.
Their boat was found upside down near a rocky beach in Palos Verdes Estates US Coast Guard He said. A Coast Guard search was conducted on Christmas Eve but was halted on Wednesday due to dangerous conditions, The Times reported.
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Last month, a human skull and bones washed ashore in the same area where the latest remains were found. Belda said it's unclear whether the recently found femur is related to the condition, according to the Times.
