By Tom Kollenborn © 2022 Courtesy of the Apache Junction News and Apache Junction Public Library
Thursday, February 3, 2011
SSAR Locate the Remains of a 3rd Victim
On Thursday, January 13, 2011, Superstition Search and Rescue sent in a
team to work the area between Yellow Peak and the First Water Parking
Lot. On Saturday, January 15, 2011, the SSAR team located the remains of
a third victim about .51 miles N of Yellow Peak and Black Mesa near
Second Water Canyon just above the old concrete tanks. It is quite
apparent these three skeletal remains are those of the three missing
Utah prospectors who disappeared July 6, 2010. The remains found on the
NNE slope of Yellow Peak were found by Rick Gwynn, a local author and
prospector. Positive ID is pending until the county medical examiner
make his report.