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El Paso County Coroner's Office has yet to identify a skull found in 2020

Unidentified skull in El Paso County
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EL PASO COUNTY — In October 2020, the El Paso County Sheriff's Office found an unidentified human skull in the Rampart Range area near Forest Service Roads 300 and 315.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System says that the skull was found by a bow hunter who was hunting in the area at the time.

According to the El Paso County Coroner's Office, the man had been dead for five or more years before his discovery in 2020. They estimate that he died sometime between 2010-2015.

You can find an artist rendering of the man below:

Unidentified Skull in El Paso County

The only distinguishing characteristic about the man is that he had a "right side peg lateral tooth" and a slight build.

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Surveyors claim there is possibly a new 14er in Colorado

Some big news in the Colorado mountain climbing community this week. Specifically the 14er community. Those people who love to climb all of Colorado's peaks over 14,000 feet.

Surveyors claim there is possibly a new 14er in Colorado

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