Sierra Hiking Family Sent Text BEGGING For Help Before Mysterious Deaths
perezhilton.comThe 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. John Gerrish and his wife Ellen Chung, their 1-year-old daughter Aurelia “Miju” Chung-Gerrish, and even their family’s golden retriever Oski were found dead back in August in the Sierra National Forest.
After they didn’t show up for work, friends revealed they last heard from them when they were heading out on a Sunday hike. After a lengthy search, their bodies were found strewn in the open on a trail to Hite Cove, near Devil’s Gulch, with no signs of physical trauma, drugs, suicide, or animal attack.
For two months their deaths remained a mystery. 65 days after the tragedy was discovered, the Mariposa County Sheriff revealed in a press conference that the family had died of hyperthermia — overheating.
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