Officials Believe Body May Be Jockey Hansen’s
Authorities believe a body found Thursday could be the remains of jockey Ron Hansen, who mysteriously disappeared in early October.
The badly decomposed body was found in the mud flats of Hayward, near the San Mateo Bridge, Alameda police said.
Hansen’s dental records were sent to the Department of Justice, Lt. David Guarnieri said, and the coroner’s office could be slowed in the identification process. He said it could take more than 24 hours.
“The size of the body and the clothing the body had on was pretty consistent with what Mr. Hansen had on when he was last seen and reported missing,” said Guarnieri.
Hansen, 33, one of the Northern California circuit’s top riders with nearly 3,700 victories, was last seen late Friday, Oct. 1. Early the next morning, his 1990 Jaguar was involved in a hit-and-run accident on a bridge spanning San Francisco Bay.
The car was found abandoned near the bridge. There was no sign of Hansen.
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