Local News in Brief : Woman Missing 3 Days Died of Heat Stroke
A Redondo Beach woman whose body was found Wednesday in Angeles National Forest after a three-day search died of heat stroke, a Los Angeles County coroner’s investigator said Thursday.
Blayne Marie St. John, 19, was found at the bottom of a ravine less than a mile from her campsite. She was last seen in Texas Canyon on Sunday when she set out on foot to find help for herself and a friend after their motorcycles became stuck on a steep dirt road.
“The cause of death was heat stroke,” a supervising investigator said. “It was exposure to high environmental temperatures.”
On Sunday and earlier this week, temperatures reached 100 degrees in the area where St. John’s body was found, authorities said.
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