Missing Hikers Found Dead of Gunshot Wounds, and Locked in an Embrace<br />The bodies of the hikers, Rachel Nguyen, 20, and Joseph Orbeso, 22, who had been missing since late July, were found embracing<br />each other under a tree in Joshua Tree National Park, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.<br />Two hikers whose bodies were discovered last week in a steep canyon in a national park in Southern California died<br />of gunshot wounds, the authorities said in a statement on Friday, in what appeared to be a murder-suicide.<br />The area’s triple-digit temperatures made for a “very dire situation,”<br />and the condition of the bodies made it difficult to determine when they died, Ms. Bachman said.
