Colorado investigators believe skeletal remains found this week may be those of an Atlanta man missing since October.
On Sunday, a hiker found an abandoned campsite and a backpack that contained numerous items, including a Georgia driver's license belonging to Abisha "Abe" Mounce, the Valley Courier in Alamosa, Colo., reported on its website. The following day, cadaver dogs located skeletal remains, according to the report.
The remains have not yet been positively identified as Mounce, but they were found near other items belonging to the man. Investigators plan to obtain a DNA sample from a family member in Atlanta, the newspaper reported.
Mounce, 38, abruptly quit his job at a computer company in October and sent an email to his wife the next day saying that he was going hiking for a couple of weeks. Mounce also told his wife, Xzianua Tong, that he had taken her 2007 Jeep in the October 21 message.
Five days later, the Jeep was spotted parked at a trailhead of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. But Tong didn't report her husband as missing to Atlanta police until November 14, saying it wasn't out of character for the avid outdoorsman to disappear for several weeks.
Colorado investigators launched a search, but were unsuccessful in finding Mounce in the fall.
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