Berry Picker Finds Skull

Wed., Aug. 3, 1994

From Staff

A local huckleberry picker found a human skull last week in the Pine Creek area.

The unidentified picker discovered the skull last Thursday, according to the Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office.

County Coroner Lonnie Duce was contacted and accompanied the person to the site where the skull was found. A brief search of the area was conducted for other remains but nothing else was found at the time.

The release said a more thorough search was conducted the next day and a jawbone was found approximately 20 yards from where the skull had been located. No other remains had been located by Monday.

The skull and jawbone were being taken to Spokane to be examined by a forensic dentist in an attempt to find out how long the skull may have been at the site, and possibly the age and sex of the victim, the release said.

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