Skeletal Remains Found In Marin County Identified

MARIN COUNTY, CA – Authorities have attached a name to the skeletal remains found in Marin County in March. The Marin County Sheriff's Office-Coroner Division on Wednesday identified the man as 62-year-old Brian Edwin Deen, who was last reported to be living in the Sausalito area.

Hikers discovered the remains March 2 on federal land, in the Marin Headlands area near the Golden Gate Bridge. The National Park Service contacted the coroner's division after the remains were found.

The remains were found in an open space area commonly inhabited by transients. A preliminary investigation completed by the coroner's division and National Park Service "did not note any overt evidence of a criminal act or foul play at the site of discovery," officials said.

"Evidence at the scene was suggestive of this being a previously occupied transient encampment," officials said in a statement.

The remains were examined and evaluated by a forensic odontologist, forensic anthropologist and the state's Bureau of Forensic Services DNA Laboratory in an effort to positively identify the subject. After a DNA profile was developed from the biological specimen, a positive identification was made through a comparative match to a familial sample submitted, officials said.

The case remains under investigation by the coroner's division and National Park Service.

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