Sailors aboard the Silver Spray recalled watching helplessly as Jonathan Raxa vanished into the sea after an 18-foot wave ripped the pilothouse from his commercial fishing boat off the California coast in 1999.
More than 26 years after his horrified crew shared their story of survival, a pelvic bone found on a Northern California beach has finally revealed the fate of Raxa.
The remains were discovered on Centerville Beach in Northern California in March and reported to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies recovered the bone and identified it as a human sacrum before sending it to the California Department of Justice for
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