California authorities relying on dog's autopsy, other forensics for answers in family's mysterious deaths
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The Marisopa County Sheriff's Office is confident that they can rule out homicide in the mysterious deaths of a family on a hiking trail in the Sierra National Forest earlier this week.
After Gerrish, a software engineer who formerly worked at Google according to his LinkedIn profile, didn't show up for work on Monday, a family friend reported them missing. Google did not respond to a request for comment. John Gerrish and Ellen Chung had recently moved to the Marisopa area with their 1-year-old daughter and dog. (Steven Jeffe via KTVU) (Steven Jeffe via KTVU) (Steven Jeffe via KTVU) (Steven Jeffe via KTVU) Their bodies were found Tuesday on a hiking trail with no clear cause of death, and while homicide was initially considered as a possibility, law enforcement is now confident that they can rule it out. "Initially, yes, when we come across a family with no apparent cause of death, there's no smoking gun, there's no suicide note, there's nothing like that, we have to consider all options," Mariposa County Sheriff's spokeswoman Kristie Mitchell told Fox News on Saturday. "Now that we're five days in, no, we're no longer considering homicide as a cause of death."
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