WARNING!: Description below may be disturbing to some readers.

Looking at the baseball fields at Shady Rest Park in Mammoth Lakes, California.  The area has plenty of hiking opportunities.  Very near the area is the Old & New Shady Rest Campground w/ the hillsides leading towards the top of Mammoth Knolls. 

On May 25, 2003, a hiker w/ his dog stumbled upon a human skull & later in the week more human remains of a female were found burned on the ridgeline about 1,000 feet above Mammoth Lake on Mammoth Knolls.  She had likely died 6-9 months prior w/ snow preventing an earlier discovery.  It was determined that she was a homicide victim of stabbing & isotopic analysis determined she was from Mexico & of Zapotic Indian descent, even pinpointing down to two villages in Southern Mexico where she was from.  Despite a couple visits to gather DNA from the two villages, she could not be identified.  However in August 2021, a DNA match using genetic genealogy identified her as Isabel Sanchez Bernal from Puebla, Mexico.  Very quickly afterwards the arrest of Diego Santiago Hernandez-Antonia, age 47, was made in connection to her murder, thus ending an 18-year mystery.

The Shady Rest Park area is also one of the last known sightings of Matthew Brian Greene, a 39-year old avid hiker & climber who disappeared on July 13, 2013.  Visiting from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, he experienced vehicle trouble & was getting his vehicle fixed.  He left the area presumably to go on a hike & may have been picked up by someone or gotten injured in the woods.  He never returned to his camp at the park & remains missing to this day.