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3 SF a 0 L. | AT SAN RAFAEL, CALIFORNIA 2: TD 12 ais San Rafael, advised that dur: BID { 00 to 3 35 definite suicides were listed from the Golden Gate Bridge. Five of these hit the rocks or ground underneath and the bodies readily recovered. Of the other 30 suicides, 17 bodieswere recovered and 13 were not recovered. Very probable suicides listed during 1960-1962 with bodies not found were 12, Ay advised that an investigation is made ae, of each jump and that three or four witnesses who saw the jump | are needed before it is listed as a suicide; if only one person \ sees & Jump, then it is listed as a probable suicide. : Therefore, of the definite jumpers from the bridge hitting the water and of the very probable jumpers from 1960- 1962, there were a total of 42 with 17 bodies found and 25 not ‘ound. 4 .<.:;-: that if a jumper lands near the shoreline ere is an incoming tide, there is a good possibility of recovery of the body because the Coast Guard boats are only about 15 minutes from the bridge, and a marker is thrown over the bridge to mark the approximate location of the body. He stated, however, that if a person jumps from near the center of the bridge and there is an outgoing tide the body is rarely recovered. b7e. -i- 495