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Bodies keep turning up near luxury ocean homes — what to know about the eerie cliffside deaths
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For the second time in two months, a body has been recovered from the base of the steep cliffs that line one of Southern California’s most affluent coastal communities.
On Oct. 30, officers from the Palos Verdes Estates Police Department (PVEPD) responded to reports of a body spotted along the steep bluffs near the 1400 block of Paseo Del Mar, SF Gate reported.
Firefighters from the Los Angeles County Fire Department assisted in retrieving the remains of an unidentified man from the rocky shoreline below. Police Chief Luke Hellinga said there were no indications of foul play.
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There was a similar tragedy earlier this year when another body was found in the same coastal stretch south of Paseo Del Mar.
On Aug. 30, fire crews and police were dispatched to the same area after a body was discovered at the base of the cliff. Witnesses said the victim appeared to be male, though authorities have not publicly confirmed the person’s identity. In both cases, investigators reported no evidence of criminal activity, according to Hellinga.
Palos Verdes first responders stand near a cliff. (Palos Verdes Estates Police Department)
The October and August incidents are part of a disturbing pattern. In late 2024, separate discoveries of human remains were made just blocks away.
On Nov. 16, 2024, a passerby walking along Rat Beach, near the 300 block of Paseo Del Mar, reported finding what appeared to be a human skull and several bones during low tide. Investigators confirmed the remains were human and began working with the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office to determine the identity and cause of death.
Just over a month later, on Christmas Day 2024, officers were again called to the area near the 800 block of Paseo Del Mar after a partial human leg washed ashore. The next day, two partial sections of lower extremities were found on the shoreline. The coroner’s office confirmed those remains were also human, and a cadaver dog from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department was deployed to search the surrounding coastline.
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An undated photo showing a helicopter, often used in rescues, near the Palos Verdes cliff. (Palos Verdes Estates Police Department)
In a June 18, 2025, news release, police announced that several of the remains recovered along the city’s shoreline since 2023 had been positively identified through DNA testing.
According to Captain Aaron Belda, the identified victims include:
Mark Paulson, 68, whose femur was found in January 2023 and linked to a 2021 boating disappearance off Redondo Beach.
Raymond Simeroth, 57, identified from a skull and bone recovered in November 2024; investigators said he had experienced health issues before his death.
Zhaoliang Tang, 62, confirmed through DNA from two partial lower extremities as a missing fisherman.
The cases showed no signs of foul play, police said.
The deaths have drawn renewed attention to the hazards of the area’s rugged coastline.
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Cars make their way along Palos Verdes Drive South in Rancho Palos Verdes Aug. 31, 2024. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
According to a 2022 report in The Point, then-Captain Tony Best of PVEPD said that, between 2010 and 2015, officers responded to 31 incidents, including suicides, rescues and injuries, along the city’s coastal cliffs.
Countywide, the Los Angeles County Lifeguard Division reported 9,286 ocean rescues in 2021, including cliff rescue operations.
In 2022, four people fell from the same cliffside, one of whom died, prompting warnings from officials about unstable ground. Fire Captain Wade Kelsey described the landscape to FOX 11 Los Angeles as “very unstable, very dangerous.”
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A resident walks next to a rocky coastline in Palos Verdes. Human remains were discovered in the coastal city last week. (Getty Images)
“It’s extremely dangerous; there’s no fencing in the area,” Wade told the outlet. “There’s sloping to where it just goes off to a sheer cliff, and the majority of the area here is very unstable, very dangerous if you get close to the edge of this cliff without any sort of protection.”
Despite the risks, the cliffs remain largely unfenced and accessible.
The cliffside city remains one of California’s wealthiest enclaves. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city’s median household income is about $202,569 (2017–2021 American Community Survey), and Zillow’s Home Value Index places the typical home value around $2.69 million.
In 2015–2016, Palos Verdes Estates worked with Habitat for Humanity to deconstruct and demolish city-owned structures at Bluff Cove, clearing the site for permanent open space following decades of documented land movement, according to city records and notices.
The city’s cliffside properties, perched just yards from the ocean, continue to fuel debate over how to balance scenic preservation with public safety.
The PVEPD and the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office continue to investigate the most recent October incident and work toward identifying the man found near Paseo Del Mar.
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Anyone with information is urged to contact the PVEPD at 310-378-4211.
Fox News Digital reached out to the police department and mayor’s office for comment.
Stepheny Price covers crime, including missing persons, homicides and migrant crime. Send story tips to stepheny.price@fox.com.
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KALIHI KAI, Oahu (KHON2) — Tuesday afternoon’s line of backed-up traffic came in part after equipment on a truck hit the Gulick overpass, the lowest overpass on the island.
“Every time (Gulick overpass) gets hit, it takes us an hour to four hours to clear it,” said Ed Sniffen, Hawaii Department of Transportation director. “First, our people have to get out in traffic to get there, and second, we have to make sure we check the structure, the integrity of the structure and remove any loose concrete that might be there.”
The trucking industry said it takes precautions to ensure accurate and safe routes for its trucks, but accidents can still happen.
“Sometimes when we do get orders to deliver things, we go by what the person who’s doing the initial order is, we go by what their weight and their height is, and sometimes it’s not correct,” said Tina Yamaki, Hawaii Transportation Association managing director.
Tuesday wasn’t the first time the Gulick overpass has been hit, which is why raising it is a top priority for the DOT. They said the entirety of the overpass should be closed by June, with work expected to last for about a year.
“The Gulick overpass is our lowest clearance in the state right now, it’s at 14.3, the next nearest one is at 14.7, and it never gets hit,” said Sniffen. “Gulick overpass has been hit in the last five years at least four times.”
DOT is currently installing a pedestrian overpass to connect nearby schools and homes in the area, which will be installed by early June, and a complete shutdown of the area is expected by the end of June.
The raising of the overpass is part of the larger project to expand Middle Street to five lanes.
“The project itself is over 100 million dollars, very important for this area,” said Sniffen. “It’s an area that we always have back-ups during peak times, and non-peak times, and we always have a lot of weaving in those areas because of the merge that we have there.”
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The Bridger project is a massive oil pipeline project that would come in from Alberta, Canada, into Montana at Phillips County, then go through nine counties before getting to Wyoming.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) are reviewing the project, and it could cut across private, state, and federal land.
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Proposed Bridger pipeline would bring crude from Canada through Montana to Wyoming
The 647-mile-long Bridger pipeline would move up to 550,000 barrels of crude oil a day.
“It’s a win for Montana. It’s a win for America,” said Yellowstone County Commissioner Mark Morse.
Morse and the Yellowstone County commissioners are among the many Montana leaders supporting the project.
Just this week, they drafted a letter to the Bureau of Land Management expressing that support.
“The energy security is again, it’s going to be on the North American continent and transporting oil via a pipeline is safer than rail or truck,” Morse said.
Commissioners also say the pipeline would be an economic boost for Yellowstone County, bringing construction jobs, supply contracts, and local spending.
“We’ll be a hub for their construction activities,” Morse said. “Supplying parts and pieces, labor.”
But there are plenty of opponents.
They say the risks are simply too high, pointing to past oil spills, including the 2015 Poplar pipeline rupture that sent 30,000 gallons of crude oil into the Yellowstone River near Glendive and a diesel spill of 45,000 gallons near Sussex, Wyoming.
“If that crossing has spilled into the Missouri River, it eventually would make it to that intake,” said Lance Fourstar, co-director of the American Indian Movement Montana. “Highly carcinogenic tar sand bitumen, so we already know it’s highly carcinogenic.”
Fourstar also has concerns about sacred tribal lands.
“The key point of concern is the sovereignty and treaty rights,” Fourstar said. “This project crosses lands, that with treaty reserved rights, hunting, fishing, and gathering.”
The Montana Environmental Information Center (MEIC) says the pipeline would originate in Alberta with what it calls environmentally destructive fuel sources.
“It’s an environmental disaster waiting to happen in a state that gets a lot of revenue from fishing and agriculture. A majority of the route crosses through Montana, putting land and water at risk,” MEIC spokesperson Shannon James said in a telephone interview with MTN News.
But for Yellowstone County leaders like Morse, it’s a win-win, not just for Yellowstone County, but also the country.
“I just see energy independence for America,” Morse said.
MTN News contacted True Companies in Casper, which proposed the Bridger pipeline.
True and BLM were not available for interviews.
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