OAK PARK : Authorities Unable to Identify Skull
Reconstruction art done by the Ventura County Sheriff Department’s crime laboratory of a skull found in Oak Park in July cannot give a positive identification of the body, Assistant Medical Examiner Ronald L. O’Halloran said.
The work was done in an attempt to reconstruct the appearance of the skull and possibly link it to Jeanetta LaBelle, who is believed to have drowned in San Antonio Creek during a flood in 1969.
“A drawing can’t be good enough,” O’Halloran said. “You can’t just draw general features of a skull and expect to positively identify the body.”
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