Two duck hunters scouting a wooded area in rural North Carolina ended up finding human remains, authorities said Tuesday, marking another grim discovery by hunters in recent months.
The human remains were discovered early Monday evening by two local hunters in the woods off of a highway near Taylorsville, which is about 60 miles north of Charlotte, the Alexander County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
The area was secured and processed by deputies and agents from the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday, officials said. The identity of the remains were not immediately known and the death is under investigation.
Police did not say how long they estimated the remains had been there for and no other details about the case were released.
Hunters have previously discovered human remains across the U.S. In September, authorities confirmed that skeletal remains found by a deer hunter in Wisconsin were those of a preschool-age boy named Elijah Vue, who has been missing since February.
Last year, authorities in South Carolina said a hunter found a human skull that experts said had likely been there for more than a decade. Just weeks before that, state troopers launched an investigation in after a hunter stumbled upon a human skull while hunting in a wooded area in Pennsylvania.
In 2023, two hunters found skeletal remains when they were in a wooded area near Perryville, Maryland and a deer hunter in Tennessee discovered a human skull.
The year before that, a waterfowl hunter found skeletal human remains while hunting in Lake County, Indiana.
Stephen Smith is a managing editor for CBSNews.com based in New York. A Washington, D.C. native, Steve was previously an editorial producer for the Washington Post, and has also worked in Los Angeles, Boston and Tokyo.
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