Remains of missing triathlete found in Santa Cruz after shark spotted with human body in its mouth
December 29, 2025
The body of the triathlete killed in a shark attack off the California coast has been recovered a week after she vanished while swimming with her husband, according to reports.
Erica Fox’s corpse was found Saturday afternoon still clad in her black wetsuit south of Davenport Beach in Santa Cruz — about 25 miles from where she was last seen, her heartbroken husband said.
Jean-Francis Vanreusel was swimming about 100 yards behind his wife with 13 other members of a local swimming club on Dec. 21 when a shark dragged his wife of 30 years into the water, he told Mercury News. NY Post
