Updated at 5:15 p.m., Nov. 27, 2014
The partial remains of a 75-year-old Fallbrook woman with Alzheimer’s disease who went missing from a Julian campground early last month were found in some heavy shrubbery about a half-mile away, authorities said Thursday.
A maintenance worker found the partial skeletal remains of a woman at 3:20 p.m. Wednesday in dense brush behind a residence in the 200 block of Coulter Ridge Drive, according to the county Medical Examiner’s Office and the sheriff’s department.
Authorities later confirmed the remains were that of Sally Estabrook, who had gone missing from the Pinezanita RV Park and Campground on Oct. 4., sheriff’s Lt. John Maryon said.
Maryon said the clothing on the body “closely resembles what was reportedly worn by Mrs. Estabrook the day she went missing.” The county Medical Examiner’s Office later positively identified the body, but an autopsy to determine how she died was pending.
Foul play was not suspected, Maryon said.
Estabrook apparently wandered away from the 26.5-acre campground in the 4400 block of state Route 79, north of Harrison Park Road, while her husband was showering on the afternoon of Oct. 4, according to a sheriff’s department statement.
Estabrook’s son-in-law, Dave Mustaine, is frontman of the thrash-metal band Megadeth and a founding member of the famed heavy metal band Metallica.
—City News Service