The remains of Redwood City resident George Sliter, a retiree who went missing Sunday morning in the Aptos hills were found Tuesday around 10 a.m., the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office has reported.
Sliter, 74, was last seen around 8:30 a.m. Sunday at the Monte Toyon Retreat Center, where he was staying with friends.
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The search for Sliter entered its third day Tuesday morning. At its peak, more than 100 Search and Rescue volunteers were looking for him on foot, on horseback, on ATVs and dirt bikes, and with police tracking dogs.
The area where Sliter went missing is adjacent to The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park, a rugged 10,000-acre wilderness.
Details on where Sliter was found and what caused his death were not immediately available.
According to friends and Sheriff’s deputies, Sliter had breakfast with friends at the retreat center early Sunday morning, then said he planned to take a walk in the woods before rejoining them for church services at 9:15 a.m.
His friends worried and reported him missing when he never showed up for the services.
Two women reported that they had been walking in the woods when a man matching Sliter’s description asked them how to get to the retreat center around 10:45 a.m., later that morning.
