If the guy is living wild, it has been pretty rainy and clothes not drying, therefore smell musty. Did you note the [...] in the story, what was left out? Perhaps a description of her having been raped, and whoever called it in was being discrete.
I tend to forget about wet forests living here in CA where it’s bone dry May to Oct.
The missing bit:
The woman’s condition was not released, however a firefighter asked dispatchers to send a park ranger ASAP.
By Friday, the incident was being investigated as a possible assault and National Park Service Rangers had released a description of a possible suspect.