Identities of a human foot, bones found in Saginaw County remain mystery due to lab funding
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SAGINAW COUNTY, MI Investigators have suffered a setback in identifying a human foot found earlier this year along the Flint River in southern Saginaw County. The same complication is also keeping police from learning the identity of a set of human bones found in the county years ago.
Sheriff William L. Federspiel said an unexpected cut in federal grant funding to a laboratory is what’s causing the two mysteries to remain unsolved.
On Feb. 26, two teenagers who were fishing along the Flint River in the area of Seymour and East Sloan roads in Taymouth Township found the human foot. Federspiel described it as being in a lace-up work boot, size 10 ½. The sex, race, and approximate age of the foot’s person remain unknown.
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By HENRY CULVYHOUSE
The Daily Independent Apr 20, 2021
5 hrs ago
EASTPARK, Ky. â On July 18, 2020, a couple of hunters were making some preparations for the fall on a piece of land they leased on the edge of Boyd County, up at the Industrial Parkway.
The week prior, according to authorities, they had smelled something rancid, perhaps a dead animal. This time, they followed the stench â thatâs when Boyd County Coroner Mark Hammond said they found a human buttocks sticking out of the ground.
On top of the buttocks was a bit of rock and the charred remnants of a fire, according to Hammond. Kentucky State Police Detective Matthew Boarman said that fire could have been from any number of scenarios â evidence disposal, trying to conceal a smell or lit by people who didnât even know there was a human body underneath it.
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EASTPARK On July 18, 2020, a couple of hunters were making some preparations for the fall on a piece of land they leased on the edge of Boyd County, up at the Industrial Parkway.
The week prior, according to authorities, they had smelled something rancid, perhaps a dead animal. This time, they followed the stench â thatâs when Boyd County Coroner Mark Hammond said they found a human buttocks sticking out of the ground.
On top of the buttocks was a bit of rock and the charred remnants of a fire, according to Hammond. Kentucky State Police Detective Matthew Boarman said that fire could have been from any number of scenarios â evidence disposal, trying to conceal a smell or lit by people who didnât even know there was a human body underneath it.
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