This is definitely NOT the outcome I had hoped for. I'm still confused, too many questions unanswered.
A Search and Rescue helicopter pilot was flying over a mountain top, in the Los Padres National Forest and spotted something (a different color from the rest of the landscape). As he got closer, he found it to be, a human body.
Where he was found was 1,200 feet higher in elevation, from where he had left camp. It appears that he had fallen to his death. He was shirtless and without shoes. If he was searching for his dog the night he ran off, why would he climb to an elevation 1,200 feet higher? Barefoot? At night? Wouldn't he have gone back to camp and put his shoes on to continue the search? Maybe he got lost and wanted to get to higher ground? For the rescuers to see him? For him to see his campsite?
An autopsy, to determine cause of death, is being performed as I type. A toxicology test is also being done, but results won't be available for several weeks. Will there be any other results that point toward a murder? DNA under his nails? Blunt force trauma to the head, NOT caused from a fall? A gunshot wound? A stab wound? Did he have bruises on him? If you are already dead, you don't bruise. OR will they find nothing out of the ordinary? How long has he been dead? A day or 14 days?
Whatever they discover, whatever the results are, I am heartbroken for him, his family, his friends, his coworkers and his dog. I hope the family gets closure one way or another.
Rest In Peace Michael Herdman, not the results anyone was hoping for!!
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