Ellen Chung: Last News

The desperate last message a dad sent before dying alongside his family in suffocating temperatures has been revealed - but tragically it never went through.

The fate of a Southern California family went unexplained for months — but if they’d only been successful in sending their last message, everyone would have known what had happened all along. And maybe, just maybe, someone might have been able to save them.

Tributes have been paid to a Lancashire man, his wife and their baby who died while out hiking.

Brit family who were found dead alongside their dog on a hiking trail has been revealed by authorities.John Gerrish, Ellen Chung, and their one-year-old daughter Miju were mysteriously found dead beside eight-year-old family pet Oski, in the Sierra National Forest back in August.The family, who moved to California, were discovered in the Devil's Gulch section of the Hites Cove Trail on August 17, only one day after they were reported missing by their nanny.In a press conference on Thursday, the Mariposa County Sheriff's Office confirmed the family died of hyperthermia and probably dehydration, with their pup dying from a heat-related death.Sheriff Jeremy Briese said it was a "rare" tragedy.He told reporters: "This is the first hyperthermia

This baffling and tragic case has finally come to a close.

This case just gets more baffling by the day.

Could this finally be an answer? Could lightning really have caused the deaths of this poor family??

One step closer to closure… and yet it feels like we’re even more in the dark.

Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!The deaths of a British family - including their baby and pet dog - are still shrouded in mystery after their autopsies failed to reveal how they died.A murder probe was launched yesterday (August 21) by detectives after Jonathan Gerrish, 45, his wife Ellen Chung, 31, and their one-year-old daughter Muji were discovered in a remote area of the Sierra National Forest in California, US.A number of possible causes of death are still being considered by investigators, including toxic algae that was reported in a nearby river and noxious gases like carbon monoxide from abandoned mines.The US Forest Service warned the public in July that toxic algae had been found in the Merced River, urging

The investigation into one of the most mysterious death cases in recent history has taken another turn.

Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!The mysterious deaths of a British-born software engineer and his family are now being treated as homicide by police who say they have "never seen a case like this before".Jonathan Gerrish, 45, his wife Ellen Chung, 31, and their one-year-old daughter Muji, were found by search teams on Tuesday, August 17 in an area of the Sierra National Forest known as Devil's Gulch.Police were unable to determine a cause of death, leading police to suspect that the family and their dog could have been poisoned by gas escaping from abandoned gold and silver mines believed to be nearby."It could be a carbon monoxide situation," said Kristie Mitchell, a spokeswoman for the Mariposa county sheriff’s

This is so scary! A missing family of three from Mariposa County, California, has been found dead, along with their dog. And it’s still unclear what happened to them.

Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!Mystery surrounds the tragic deaths of British born software engineer John Gerrish, his wife Ellen Chung, and their 1-year-old daughter, Muji.The family’s dog was also found dead on the hiking trail near an area known as Devil’s Gulch in the Sierra National Forest in Central California on Monday morning.Police were unable to determine a cause of death, leading police to declare the area a hazmat scene, said Kristie Mitchell, a spokeswoman for the local sheriff’s office."It could be a carbon monoxide situation," she said. "That’s one of the reasons why we’re treating it as a hazmat situation."The three were found in the open air, not in a tent, adding to the confusion.