Jonathan Gerrish: 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.

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

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