Officials submit bones for further study

STAFF REPORT

BAZETTA — Human bones discovered during the weekend along Geauga-Portage Easterly Road will be taken Friday to the Army Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C., for further study.

Police Chief Charles Sayers said Dr. Humphrey Germaniuk, forensic pathologist with the Trumbull County Coroner’s office, could not determine the age, sex, gender or race of the bones found early Saturday.

Dr. Germaniuk will carry the bones to the institute. Any results, Sayers said, should be known in about eight weeks.

It is the same facility that did the analysis for bones found in July 2006 at Mosquito Lake State Park. It was determined that those bones were of a black man, older than 50, who was about 5 feet 10 inches tall. The bones remain unidentified.

Sayers said the pathology institute identifies the remains of soldiers killed in the Persian Gulf.

People are calling township police, Sayers explained, to see if the bones match those of missing people they know. He said the department has nothing to compare with the missing people but is retaining the information called in so it can be compared eventually when the study is completed.

The bones, partially wrapped in a plastic bag and thrown along the road, were discovered by a couple. It has been determined thus far the bones are those of an adult.