Human remains found in a shoe box on a Central Valley dirt road could be really old
Human remains found by a farmworker down a Kings County dirt road appear to come from a historic or prehistoric Native American and officials are looking for help to inter them properly.
The remains were found May 3 near Ninth and Lansing avenues south of Hanford, where a dairy worker happened upon them inside a New Balance shoe box, which was inside a red Milwaukee brand tool bag, the sheriff’s office said Tuesday.
Detectives and the King County deputy coroner responded and said the remains appeared historic or prehistoric, the sheriff’s office said.
The remains were taken to the Fresno State Anthropology Department, where experts examined them the following day, deputies said.
The department determined the “remains are consistent with that of a historic/prehistoric Native American,” the sheriff’s office said.
The Kings County Sheriff’s Office said they are looking for the person who may have discarded the remains to determine where they came from.
“It is the goal of the sheriff’s office to find the burial site of where the remains were originally found so that the proper notifications can be made, and the remains can be (interred) properly with dignity and respect,” the office said.
Anyone with information about the remains or who moved them is asked by the sheriff’s office to contact Detective Perla Trejo at the Kings County Sheriff’s Office at 559-413-9403.
