A police ground search of a wooded area in Chelmsford where skeletal human remains were located on Sunday turned up additional remains this week.
On April 28, a member of the public walking in the wooded area west of Marion Street in Chelmsford located what they believed were parts of a human skeleton. There are trails in the wooded area, but police said the person was walking in the woods off-trail.
The person contacted Greater Sudbury Police at around 5:30 p.m.
Officers attended the scene and confirmed what appeared to be human bones. GSPS spokesperson Kaitlyn Dunn said police conducted a ground search covering a 100-foot radius around the area where the remains were found and located additional human remains.
“The skeletal remains that have been located by officers during the ground search are believed to belong to the same person,” Dunn said.
Officers have concluded the ground search in the area and are clear of the scene.
The remains were sent to a forensic anthropologist for study and to determine more about them and who they might have belonged to. That information is not being released publicly at this time, police said.
Detectives from the Major Crime Section of GSPS’s Criminal Investigation Division are working in collaboration with the Coroner’s Office, the Centre of Forensic Science and subject matter experts in a shared investigation.
Police are asking anyone with information related to this incident to contact police at 705-675-9171 or to make an anonymous tip through Crime Stoppers at 705-222-8477.
