Medical examiner confirms remains were those of activist

<p>Skeletal remains found in November in a burned-out cabin in Giles County are those of a 44-year-old Virginia Tech biologist, the medical examiner's office concluded.</p><p>Susan Jean Daniels apparently died at the hands of Niklan Jones-Lezama, 40, of Blacksburg, sometime in the early morning of Nov. 18, according to the Giles County Sheriff's office.</p><p>Police say Jones-Lezama then set Daniels' cabin on fire, left a note apologizing to his wife, Claudia Jones-Lezama, and committed suicide a few hundred yards from the cabin.</p><p>Daniels and Jones-Lezama were activists who had served time in federal prison for trespassing on military property during a 2001 protest at Fort Benning, Ga.</p><p>Friends said the two had carried on an on-again, off-again romantic relationship since that protest, but Daniels tried to break it off two months before their deaths.</p><p>When Daniels tried to end the relationship, Jones-Lezama stalked her, friends said.</p><p>The medical examiner at first erroneously identified bones found in the cabin as those of a stray animal. Radford University forensic anthropologists Cliff and Donna Boyd were later called in on the case and identified the bones as human.</p><p>The medical examiner's office said Tuesday that the cause and manner of Daniels' death had not yet been completed.</p>

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