Body parts found below Hollywood sign

Police converge below a Hollywood Hills park off Canyon Drive to search for more body parts after a man’s head was found in the brush along a hiking trail in Bronson Canyon.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Uniformed LAPD officers guard the entrance to Bronson Canyon, where a massive search was launched to find body parts. More than 30 detectives and additional officers on horseback fanned out across seven acres of rugged parkland.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

LAPD officers go door to door along Canyon Drive near the entrance to Bronson Canyon to talk to residents about whether they witnessed anything unusual -- or if their trash had been displaced.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Officers talk with passersby near the entrance to Bronson Canyon, where detectives set up a grid to comb the area in search of body parts. Authorities said the victim was a man with graying hair who appeared to be in his 40s and that he probably had been dead for a day or two.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Police swarm the area along Canyon Drive at the entrance to Bronson Canyon, where the man’s body parts were found. Detectives think the victim was killed somewhere else and that his body parts were dumped in the brush along a hiking trail.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)