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Cold Case Solved Involving Native American Remains |
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Friday, 01 October 2010 |
Cold Case Solved Involving Native American Remains
KEZI
9.30.2010
LINN COUNTY, Ore. -- A skull seized from a Sweet Home family in the 1980s has now been identified.
Linn County Sheriff's Detectives say the human skull has been identified as Native American and has been returned to the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde.
In May of 1984, a sheriff's deputy seized the skull from the family of a 7-year-old boy who had taken the it to school for show-and-tell.
The boy's family told the Sheriff's Office the boy had gotten it from a friend, who had borrowed it from his father.
In late 2009, Major Crimes Detectives with the Linn County Sheriff's Office contacted the person who had taken the skull to school.
He gave information about his friend and his friend's father. Detectives found that both of them are deceased.
Detectives sent the skull to a forensic anthropologist at the University of Oregon. She determined the skull was from an adult female, was archaeological in nature, and "probable Asian/Native American."
Officials say the remains will be reburied according to customs of the respective tribe.
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