A group of Bonny Doon hikers stumbled upon a skull wrapped in a plastic bag, just down a roadside embankment on a Saturday afternoon more than three decades ago.
Deputies, with the help of a forensic pathologist and anthropologist, shared suspicions that the individual’s death was a homicide and determined that the victim, estimated at the time to be a 17-year-old male teenager. He had likely been killed and dumped a year earlier, investigators told the press. The hikers were about 2.5 miles up Bonny Doon Road from the coast when they made their find, authorities said.
For the next 35 years, the body remained listed as an unidentified “John Doe” and the case unresolved. On Thursday, however, the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office shared a breakthrough: The found remains appear to be those of Marty Robin Rupar, born in 1966. He would have been about 21 years old at his death, a year before he was found on Feb. 13, 1988.
Rupar, originally hailing from Green Bay, Wisconsin, according to Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Ashley Keehn, was last known to be living in Mississippi before he went missing in 1983, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
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