Avalanche in Colorado leaves one person dead, another still buried, sheriff's office says

One person died in an avalanche in Colorado on Saturday and rescue teams are still searching for another victim buried in the snow.

According to the Grand County Sheriff's Office, Search and Rescue teams responded to a report of an avalanche at around 2:15 p.m. on Saturday on Corona Pass near the Town of Winter Park.

Two snowmobilers were left buried in the avalanche, the sheriff's office said.

Emergency responders and citizens in the area assisting in recovery efforts were able to locate one of the victims. The 58-year-old male was pronounced dead at the scene and was transferred to the Grand County Coroner’s Office.

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Rescuers failed to find the second victim, a male, and were forced to retreat from the area because of weather and safety concerns. 

The sheriff's office said Search and Rescue teams would return to the area early on Sunday to continue recovery efforts.

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Officials have been in contact with both victims' families and are providing support.

"Unfortunately, this is the second fatal avalanche that we have experienced this season in Grand County," Grand County Sheriff Brett Schroetlin said in a press release. "Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the victims. We encourage those recreating in our backcountry to regularly monitor the conditions and follow the advice of our avalanche professionals at Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC)."

The decedent’s identity and cause and manner of death will be released by the Coroner at a later date, the sheriff's office said.

Father of slain student Kaylee Goncalves comments on suspected Idaho murderer: 'Looked like a normal guy'

The father of one of the four college students that were stabbed to death in Moscow, Idaho, said he did not imagine suspected murderer Bryan Kohberger to look the way he does.

Kaylee Goncalves’s father Steve said he thought Kohberger, the 28-year-old criminology student who is the lone suspect in the quadruple homicide of University of Idaho students Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin, would look more menacing and monstrous.

"No, I thought he would be much bigger and more of a monster, ya know obviously have those key looks of somebody who could not get along with girls and this was like his only option or something," Gonclaves told host Chris Cuomo during an interview on NewsNation.

"He just looked like a normal guy that would not stand out in any room or any party," the deceased 21-year-old’s father added. "Just by the looks of him, you would not know he had that going through his head."

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Kohberger is believed to have entered the rental home of Goncalves and Mogen, both 21, and Kernodle, 20, before stabbing them to death in their beds during the early morning hours of Nov. 13. Chapin, also 20, who was staying with his girlfriend Kernodle that night, was also found stabbed to death.

Police believe Kohberger carried out the attack between 4:00 a.m. and 4:25 a.m.

Steve Goncalves’s comments come as more is being learned about Kohberger, who was a Ph.D. student at the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, which is located less than 10 miles from Moscow, Idaho.

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Investigators found multiple pieces of evidence tying Kohberger to the crime scene, including a knife sheath with his DNA as well as seeing Kohberger's white Hyundai Elantra in the area, according to a probable cause affidavit that was released Thursday.

Moscow Police Department Cpl. Brett Payne noticed "what appeared to be a tan leather knife sheath laying on the bed next to Mogen's right side," according to the affidavit.

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"I think that’s where the attack initiated, and that’s important," Joseph Scott Morgan, a distinguished scholar of applied forensics at Jacksonville State University in Alabama, told Fox News Digital "[It] goes to progression, and it goes to who the target was. That was perhaps the specific location he was bound for."

The Idaho State Police lab later identified Kohberger's DNA on the sheath.

Kohberger was ultimately arrested in late December at his parents' home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania — more than 2,500 miles away from the school. He was on winter break at the time of the arrest. The white Hyundai Elantra was at the family’s home.

Investigators also recovered trash at the home that matched a DNA profile found at the crime scene. An analysis determined the DNA from the piece of the garbage belonged to the biological father of the DNA profile found on the sheath, the affidavit says.

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His DNA also matched a DNA sample in a public database and his phone also pinged several times at his Pullman residence, just before the murders took place, and again near the crime scene several hours later.

Kohberger has been extradited to face charges in Idaho, including four counts of murder and felony burglary.

Legal experts have commented the prosecution’s inclusion of the burglary charge could be key in court as it suggests the suspect and victims shared no previous relationship that would have warranted Kohberger to have been in the home that evening.

Police have not disclosed a possible motive for the murders. Any connection between the suspect and the victims is not known at this time.

The Moscow Police Department continues to urge the public to submit any images or information that they think could be important or useful to their investigation. They can do so by calling 208-883-7180, submitting tips through This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and sending digital media here. 

Fox News' Chris Eberhart, Rebecca Rosenberg, Stephanie Pagones, and Audrey Conklin contributed to this report.