GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.—Authorities say a human skeleton found in a partially buried car near Gateway in western Colorado is that of a man who was reported missing 26 years ago.
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports () the Mesa County Coroner’s Office identified the man Monday as 65-year-old Ronald Vasey, who went missing in 1987.
The sheriff’s department says a man hiking near John Brown Canyon Road called 911 at about 6 p.m. Thursday to report the crashed vehicle, which was below a cliff roughly 100 feet off the roadway. The vehicle was partially obscured by rocks and sediment presumably washed down over the years.
The coroner’s office says it appears Vasey committed suicide.
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Information from: The Daily Sentinel,
