Dog brings home human skull in area of high-profile missing person case
Luke Gentile
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Police in Texas launched an investigation last week after a family called in to report their dog had brought home a human skull it had found.
The Luling Police Department first received a call from the family on Thursday at about 5:45 p.m. reporting that their dog had discovered a skull from an abandoned structure and carried it to their yard, according to a release posted to social media.
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“During further questioning the homeowner stated that the dog had been bringing bones back to the family’s yard for about a week and the homeowner had collected them in a plastic bag thinking they were bones from an animal,” the release read.
The discovery of the remains occurred in an area close to where a high-profile missing case was reported, and both the district attorney and Attorney General’s Office were notified, the release noted.
“Photographs of the skeletal remains were submitted to the Attorney General’s office cold case unit who forwarded them to two separate anthropologists for examination,” police said. “As of now, based on that examination, they do not believe that this recovered remains are related to the said aforementioned missing person case.”
A search of the area where the bones were found was conducted, and no further remains were discovered, authorities said.
“All recovered skeletal remains will be submitted to the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification for further examination,” according to the release.
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The Luling Police Department is continuing its investigation into the incident.