Body found in Chaffee County being investigated as homicide

A body that was found in the Trout Creek Pass area is being treated as a homicide. The person who found the remains was hunting for antlers, that are commonly shed by elk this time of year.

Chaffee County Sheriff John Spezze indicated today that they may think this a homicide.

Sheriff Spezze will not give any indication where the body was found in the area, “I don’t want people to be up there,” he said. “We’re investigating it as a homicide.”