{"id":5805,"date":"2011-04-08T08:33:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T15:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=5805"},"modified":"2011-04-08T17:08:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T00:08:05","slug":"breaking-news-skeleton-found-near-morton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=5805","title":{"rendered":"Breaking news: Skeleton found near Morton"},"content":{"rendered":"

This news story was updated at 10:10 a.m. and 5:07 p.m. on Friday April 8, 2011<\/em><\/p>\n

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker
\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Lewis County Sheriff’ Office is investigating yet another find of skeletal human remains after a discovery near Morton yesterday.<\/p>\n

A motorist who pulled off U.S. Highway 12 to take a break spotted the remains off the side of the road and called 911 about 5:30 p.m., according to the sheriff’s office.<\/p>\n

The surrounding locale is a rural wooded area, but the sheriff’s office did not specify the location except to say it was off a well-used logging road off U.S. Highway 12.<\/p>\n

Detectives responded to the scene yesterday evening and expect to return today with search and rescue volunteers to look for potential evidence, according to Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown.<\/p>\n

Less than two weeks ago, a hiker found a partial human skull<\/a> in a wooded area near Mineral. Brown said they don’t believe the two are related.<\/p>\n

Brown said the remains were laying on the ground, in plain view.<\/p>\n

The sheriff’s office released no information indicating the suspected gender or even whether it was an adult or a child.<\/p>\n

“If the killer is out there watching what we’re doing, we don’t want to release anything related to the body,” Brown said. “We’re not going to release a lot of information or speculate until we know who we’re dealing with.”<\/p>\n

As for how long the remains may have been there: “We don’t know if it was transported there and decayed there, or not,” Brown said. “I highly doubt it’s been there a long time time, it’s a well-used logging road and would have been noticed.”<\/p>\n

The remains will be sent to the King County Medical Examiner’s Office for a forensic pathologist to examine, according to the sheriff’s office.<\/p>\n

Brown said they are hopeful they can get an identification relatively soon based on dental work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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