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Foot Found in Yellowstone Hot Pool ID’d as that of LA Man

It still isn't clear how the man, Il Hun Ro, ended up in the spring, but investigators don't suspect foul play

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
NOVEMBER 17, 2022

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. – A foot found floating in a Yellowstone National Park hot pool last summer belonged to a 70-year-old man from Los Angeles, park officials said Thursday.

It still isn’t clear how the man, Il Hun Ro, ended up in the spring, but investigators don’t suspect foul play, park officials said in a statement.

Park staff found Ro’s partial foot inside of a shoe in Abyss Pool in the park’s West Thumb Geyser Basin in August.

Investigators concluded that whatever happened to Ro occurred on the morning of July 31, but that nobody saw it. They identified Ro through a DNA analysis and notified his family, officials said.

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