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DEAF SMITH CANYON — Police have identified remains found by hikers in a remote spot of the canyon last month as that of a Murray woman who went missing in 2015.
Unified police identified the remains as that of Kellie Josephson, who was last seen when she was 55.
Josephson was reported missing by the Murray Police Department after she was last seen on June 13, 2015. At that time, she had told her family that was going to Rexburg, Idaho, to visit other family members but never arrived.
Murray police said in 2015 that she didn’t have a vehicle.
On March 19, hikers stumbled across a skull and a couple of other bones in an area of the canyon "off the beaten path" at the bottom of an 80-to-90-foot cliff, Unified Police Lt. Brian Lohrke said at the time.
The identification was made using dental records, he said.
Police recovered a syringe and three bottles of insulin, two full and one empty, next to Josephson’s body, Lohrke said Wednesday. He said a cause of death remains under investigation.
