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Remains found along a Utah mountain range have been identified as belonging to Courtney Lynne Townsend, a local woman reported missing nearly two years ago.
On May 8, a hunter discovered human remains on Cedar Mountain, and after alerting authorities about the finding, law enforcement responded to the area and retrieved them, the Kane County Sheriff’s Office reported this week.
The mountain is in Tooele County, about 160 miles southeast of Salt Lake City.
According to a May 19 sheriff’s office release, authorities transported the remains to the Utah State Medical Examiner’s Office, where they were positively identified as belonging to Townsend.
The findings come on the heels of officials discovering other remains on the mountain last spring belonging to Townsend. The newly found remains failed to yield additional clues regarding the woman’s mysterious death, the sheriff’s office wrote.
The area where Townsend’s remains were found, officials reported, is about a mile from where other remains were discovered on May 27, 2024.
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The sheriff’s office said it continued to investigate the case, but