The Humboldt County Coroner’s Office has identified the body found in the Trinity River last year
in Hoopa.
On Sept. 11, 2017, at about 3:30 p.m., sheriff’s deputies responded to the Trinity River Bar, near
the Hoopa Wildland Fire Department, for the report of a body found in the river. The decedent did
not match any known missing persons in the Trinity Valley.
The Coroner’s Office has positively identified the body through DNA comparison as 53-year-old
Russell Dean Graeber of Hoopa. Graeber’s cause of death has been determined as freshwater
drowning.
Anyone with information regarding this case is encouraged to call the Sheriff’s Office at (707)
445- 7251 or the Sheriff’s Office Crime Tip line at (707) 268- 2539.
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