CONEJOS COUNTY, Colo. — Two missing elk hunters found dead this week in southern Colorado had no visible injuries or initial signs of foul play, the Conejos County coroner told Denver7 Friday.
Andrew Porter, 25, of Asheville, North Carolina, and Ian Stasko, 25, of Salt Lake City, Utah, went missing during an elk hunting trip west of Trujillo Meadows Reservoir, which is about 4 miles north of the Colorado-New Mexico line.
The Conejos County Sheriff’s Office confirmed deputies recovered the bodies of two males about two miles from the Rio De Los Pinos Trail Head around 11 a.m. following an “extensive search operation” involving more than 170 personnel, but did not identify them at the time pending notification to family.
On Friday, Conejos County Coroner Richard Martin confirmed the identities of both hunters to Denver7 over the phone and said full autopsies were scheduled for Monday in El Paso County.
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