(L.A.) James Oberg, 57, Committed Suicide

Case Number: 2012-03961

Los Angeles County is reporting the death of a 57-year-old Caucasian male that occurred on a hillside.

The coroner’s office has identified the man as James Oberg.

Manner of Death: Suicide

Cause of Death: Suffocation

RIP JAMES ERNEST OBERG (January 10, 1955 – June 15, 2012)

The decedent was a missing person whose dead body was found tied to a tree in the area of Harvard-Westlake School. He was suicidal and had had his family searching for him for two weeks prior to his death.

The body was found Friday morning at around 8:00 a.m. at a tree across from the main gate of the private school.

His residence was in the 3900 block of Coldwater Canyon Avenue.