Lauren Cho: human remains found in California in search for missing woman

Identification and determining cause of death could take weeks, San Bernardino county sheriff's department said

Officials searching for a missing 30-year-old New Jersey woman in the California desert said they had found human remains this weekend, though identification could take weeks.

The San Bernardino county sheriff's department conducted an additional search and rescue operation in the ongoing search for Lauren Cho," the San Bernardino county sheriff's department said in a press release on Sunday. During the search, unidentified human remains were located in the rugged terrain of the open desert of Yucca Valley."