Two duck hunters scouting a wooded space in rural North Carolina ended up discovering human stays, authorities mentioned Tuesday, within the newest grim discovery made by hunters in latest months.
The human stays have been found early Monday night by two native hunters within the woods close to a freeway near Taylorsville, which is about 60 miles north of Charlotte, the Alexander County Sheriff’s Office mentioned in a statement.
The space was secured and processed by deputies and brokers from the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, officers mentioned. The id of the stays was not instantly recognized, and the dying is underneath investigation.
Police didn’t say how lengthy the stays have been estimated to have been there, and no different particulars concerning the case have been launched.
Hunters have beforehand stumbled upon human stays at numerous areas throughout the U.S. In September, authorities confirmed that skeletal remains found by a deer hunter in Wisconsin have been these of a preschool-age boy named Elijah Vue who had been lacking since February.
Also final yr, authorities in South Carolina mentioned a hunter found a human skull that consultants mentioned had doubtless been there for greater than a decade. Just weeks earlier than that, state troopers launched an investigation after a hunter found a human skull in a wooded space in Pennsylvania.
In 2023, two hunters found skeletal remains in a wooded space close to Perryville, Maryland, and a deer hunter in Tennessee found a human cranium.
The yr earlier than that, a waterfowl hunter found skeletal human remains whereas searching in Lake County, Indiana.
