A woman looking for rocks along the banks of the drought-stricken Mississippi River over the weekend discovered bones that turned out to be human, local officials said
The remains include a lower jawbone, rib bones and some unidentified bone pieces, Coahoma County, Mississippi, Chief Medical Examiner Scotty Meredith told CNN. The bones will be sent to the state crime lab for further analysis, Meredith said. Investigators will try to extract DNA from the remains so they can compare it to missing persons cases, he said.
Foster said she and her family recognized the bones as possibly human and contacted the Coahoma County Sheriff’s Office. “I just hope that the MBI works quickly on this case and is able to identify the victim to the dental records at the very least so that way their family can get closure because that would bring me some peace at least,” Foster told WMC. Meredith said they still don’t know how long the bones have been there.
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