A teen was found dead with ‘obvious trauma’ on a California hiking trail. Twenty years on, an arrest has been made

More than 20 years after an 18-year-old was found dead near a hiking trail in California, investigators say an arrest has finally been made.

James Landi, 43, from San Mateo, was arrested December 5 in connection with the 2004 killing of Reynaldo Burts, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office.

Burts’ body was discovered March 21, 2004, by a hiker who called authorities around 2:18 p.m. to report human remains near Southfork Trail and Highway 74 in Idyllwild, Riverside County…

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