Overview
- Workers clearing a long-empty, century-old house in Burgheim discovered bone fragments in a hastily patched hole on Monday and alerted authorities.
- Employees from the disposal firm reported seeing what looked like a human skull, though officials have not confirmed an identification.
- Criminal police in Ingolstadt have taken over the case and secured the site while forensic examinations proceed.
- Investigators report no indications of a violent crime and say the find could be archaeological in nature.
- Given the property's location beside the church and cemetery and its recent transfer to municipal ownership after decades of occupancy, police consider a transfer from nearby graves a plausible explanation.