Glenn County officials are investigating the discovery of the body of a so-far unidentified man in a county creek.
Glenn County Sheriff Larry Jones said Saturday that the death is considered suspicious, and that his county has no reports of a missing person that would match the case so far.
Jones said the body was found the previous evening in Stony Creek, west of Hamilton City.
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Sheriff’s deputies were called to the Hamilton City Fire Department as three local teenagers had gone swimming in Stony Creek at around 6 p.m., he said.
The teens were drawn to a stench near the edge of the creek, and when they followed the smell they came upon a human body, according to Jones.
The three went back into Hamilton City and reported the situation to the Hamilton City Fire Department, which in turn called the Glenn County Sheriff’s Office, Jones said.
Jones said patrol deputies met the three young people and transported them back to Stony Creek where the teens showed the deputies the location of the body.
He said deputies found the badly decomposed remains of what appeared to be a male adult in a shallow area of still water on the north bank.
The area subsequently was sealed off and Jones and his Major Crimes Unit detectives were called to the scene, he said.
Due to darkness, the scene was guarded throughout the night by members of the Glenn County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue team, Jones said.
Investigators returned Saturday morning, processed the scene, took aerial photographs and the body was removed at approximately 9:30 a.m., Jones reported.
Pending autopsy, there is no known cause of death, and Jones said the race and identity of the subject are not known. The body is therefore classified as a John Doe.
The death is highly suspicious and a body dump has yet to be ruled out, Jones said, adding that it also is not known how long the body had been in the water.
Jones said further information will be released as it becomes available.
