Body found in Jacumba Hot Springs is identified as missing La Jolla scientist | La Jolla Light

Authorities have identified a body found late last month by hikers near a Jacumba Hot Springs campground resort as that of a La Jolla physicist who went missing from the resort about a month earlier.

Hikers discovered Derek Michael Barge’s body Aug. 29 along a dry creek bed about a half-mile east of DeAnza Springs Resort, according to the San Diego County medical examiner’s office.

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