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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

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.