Headless, Handless, Feetless Remains Found

A contractor at a Lakewood funeral home uncovered what appear to be human bones stuffed in a box that had been left in the loft of an old garage.

The remains, which are missing a head, hands and feet, were found Monday night at Mountain View Funeral Home & Memorial Park, Pierce County sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said. They were wrapped in a plastic bag and left in a wooden box.

Investigators don’t know how long the bones might have been in the garage. Nor do they know the person’s gender, age or manner of death.

“It’s possible that body’s been up there 50, 60 years,” said Ed Duke, spokesman for the Pierce County medical examiner’s office.

“This is just so strange,” he said.

The bones will be sent to an anthropologist at the University of Washington in Seattle to confirm they are human, Troyer said. The sheriff’s department doesn’t plan to investigate the bones as a homicide unless they get evidence to suggest foul play, he said.

Cindy Thompson, president of Mountain View, said it was unlikely the skeleton had been meant for interment at the cemetery.