Overview
- Two brothers exploring a creek in Homeland Park discovered a human skull on Sunday, prompting deputies to search the area and recover roughly 45 to 50 more bones.
- The coroner said the remains look weathered and may be at least a decade old, with a preliminary estimate that they belonged to someone about 15 to 25 years old.
- Officials reported no visible fractures on the skull, and investigators said it is too early to say whether foul play occurred.
- Deputies, detectives, and forensic teams are working with an anthropologist and cadaver dogs, and they believe the incomplete skeleton belongs to one person.
- Authorities have not identified the person, and they said lab work and comparisons to missing-persons records could take weeks as water can move bones downstream and scatter them.