Two duck hunters searching a wooded area in rural North Carolina found human remains, authorities said Tuesday, one of the more serious discoveries made by hunters in recent months.
The Alexander County Sheriff's Office said in a statement that human remains were found Monday evening by two local hunters in woods near a highway near Taylorsville, about 60 miles north of Charlotte. statement,
The area was secured and processed Tuesday by representatives and agents of the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, officials said. The remains were not immediately identified and the death remains under investigation.
Police did not say how long they estimated the remains had been there and released no other details about the case.
Hunters previously discovered human remains across the US in September, officials confirmed A deer hunter found skeletal remains The remains were found in Wisconsin of a preschool-age boy named Elijah View, who had been missing since February.
Last year, authorities in South Carolina spoke of a stalker found a human skull Experts say it has probably been there for more than a decade. A few weeks before that, state troopers had launched an investigation The hunter's eyes fell on a human skull While hunting in a wooded area of Pennsylvania.
two hunters in 2023 Skeletal remains found When they were in a wooded area near Perryville, Maryland and a deer hunter in tennessee Discovered a human skull.
A year before that, a waterfowl hunter skeletal human remains found While hunting in Lake County, Indiana.