Mystery Bones In Douglas County
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Investigators examine the scene where skeletal human remains were found in Douglas Co., on Wed. Mar. 5, 2008.
Web Editor: Kevin Rowson
Last Modified: 3/5/2008 6:30:38 PM
A partial skeleton was found in a wooded area west of Douglasville by a man who was chasing his dog. Investigators are trying to figure out if it is a male or female.
A Douglas County man chased his dog into a wooded area behind his home Tuesday and stumbled across a gruesome scene. He found a bone and after searching a little more found considerably more of a human skeleton.
Douglas County Sheriff's investigators were at the scene where the bones were found in the community of Winston for a second day on Wednesday and planned to be there one more. They are trying to collect as much of the remains as they can, and any evidence that might tell them what happened.
Right now they only have about 50 percent of the body, according to Chief Deputy Stan Copeland. Animals may have gotten the rest of the remains.
“Our biggest hope is that we find some personal items, perhaps find some hair, some teeth, some things like that that would help us narrow this down,” Copeland said.
He said the body could have been there months or it could have been there several years.
“I can tell you that they were completely skeletal so it could be a long time,” Copeland said.
He said whatever they collect will be turned over to the GBI crime lab and analyzed by a forensic anthropologist. Investigators spent the day searching for as many bones as possible. A 20-by-50-yard grid is marked off around the body and investigators are working on hands and knees looking for more bones.
The bones were found in the community of Winston, just off Highway 78, Veterans Memorial Parkway, west of Douglasville. They are in a wooded area behind a home that has been vacant for five or six years according to Copeland.
The sheriff's office will be checking missing person’s cases.
"Based on the skeletal remains we're looking back about ten years so we have a couple of possibilities we're looking at right now,” Copeland said.
The man who found the bones spoke to 11Alive’s Kevin Rowson, but did not want to be interviewed on camera or identified. He said the bones he discovered were from the hips down. He also said there were clothes with the remains: a shirt, pants, underwear and sneakers. He said it appeared to him that they were men’s clothes.
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