Authorities have identified the second of three sets of remains found in San Luis Valley last month, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation announced Tuesday.
Shayla Jenna Hammel, of Saguache, was identified with the help of a forensic odontologist, CBI said. A family member reported the 34-year-old missing to the Saguache County Sheriff s Office on Nov. 26 after she was last seen in late October.
Authorities said they do not know how Hammel died, but believe foul play was involved. Further information surrounding the circumstances of her death were not released.
Earlier this month, investigators identified another set of remains, found on the same Conejos County property, as 38-year-old Myron Robert Martinez, according to CBI. Authorities continue to work to identify the third set of remains found on the property.
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An arrest has been made in the homicide that occurred early Sunday morning in Saguache, according to a press release from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
Deputies with the Saguache County Sheriffâs Office, with assistance from Colorado State Patrol troopers, arrested Donald Garcia, 45, without incident just after 3:30 a.m. Tuesday. He was arrested in an abandoned camper in the town of Saguache.
Garcia is being held at the Saguache County Jail without bond and faces a charge of first-degree murder.
The victim has also been identified: Robert Turner Jr, 50, of Salida.
Investigators are not releasing how Turner died because it is part of the active investigation.