By L.K. Hewlett
St. Kitts Reporter
Police are hoping that a report from a forensic anthropologist will help them to determine the identity of a partial skeleton found in the Frigate Bay area last week.
The manager of N.H. International Caribbean Ltd called the police last Tuesday after excavation at an area East of the St. Christopher Club turned up skeletal remains.
Police determined that the skull and other bones were human and appeared to have been in the earth for “a number of years”.
The authorities have not released just how many bones were found along with the human skull but said they would leave that up to an expert to determine.
“We processed the scene and collected the bones. The skull is easily identifiable but we will not guess as to whether the other bones were leg, arms or what. We also cannot say whether the bones belonged to a male or female. We will follow procedure and have the bones analyzed by an expert in the field of forensic anthropology. That person will either be brought in to the federation or we will have to get the bones to the where that person is located,” a police official told The Observer.
Although public speculation has run the gamut as to who the deceased person may be, the aged bones may hold little clue due to the advanced stage of decomposition they were reported to be in.
Tissue sampling for any DNA match is also ruled as unlikely as well as any match by dental records.
The police source said that it is normal procedure to revisit old missing persons reports to help “narrow down” the field of possible victims.
