The information comes from “an initial report … from … the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification, Forensic Anthropology Unit,” Fitzgerald said in a press release issued Thursday.
Fitzgerald says since no gun or shell casings were found at the scene, investigators believe he was the victim of a homicide and that his body was dumped where the remains were found in a wooded area south of Barron.
Fitzgerald says the analysis shows the man had been dead at least a year. The remains were discovered after a resident called to report his dog had brought home what appeared to be a portion of a human skull. Investigators searched the area and found skeletal remains in a wooded area nearby.
Fitzgerald said forensic investigators in Texas would be at work over “the next couple of months” to extract DNA information from the remains and upload it to the Unidentified Human Remains Index and the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System to determine if either database may have information about them to make an identification.
