A third missing person case may have been solved in the last month, with a fatal discovery. This time, a hiker has reported finding suspected human remains in the remote Oregon Creek area outside of Camptonville, along with a vehicle. CHP Officer Jason Bice says the vehicle matches the description of one last known to have been driven by 64-year-old Dean Penn, also from the Camptonville area. Penn was reported missing in May. He says the vehicle appeared to have been driven off left the side of Pike City Road and overturned into a canyon…

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Bice says the vehicle appeared to have been in that spot for some time, about 500 to 600 feet down a cliff…

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Meanwhile, the Yuba County coroner’s office is still in the process of making an identification of the remains. Earlier this month, the body of Kiely Rodni was found in her vehicle in a lake by Prosser Campground in the Truckee area of Nevada County. And a few days before that, the bodies of a missing Yuba City couple were found near a vehicle that had crashed into dense foliage off Highway 20 near Poker Flat Road.