Human Remains

A Pennsylvania man has been charged with abuse of a corpse, receiving stolen property and other charges after police say he allegedly tried to buy stolen human remains from an Arkansas woman for possible resale on Facebook. A spokeswoman for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock confirmed that the remains were donated to UAMS’s facility but...

Harvard University still has the remains of at least 19 people who were likely enslaved and nearly 7,000 Native Americans, according to the school’s newspaper.

The remains are those of Patrick Shea, the district attorney confirmed Saturday night.

Human remains found Wednesday morning in Weathersfield, Vermont, are believed to belong to a woman who has been missing for several months, state police announced. The remains were found as part of the Weathersfield Police Department’s ongoing investigation into Tonia Bushway’s disappearance. The 50-year-old Weathersfield resident has been missing since early July. On Wednesday, the local police department requested...

Police are investigating after human remains were found at a landfill in Lewiston, Maine. State police said they received a call around 8:51 a.m. Tuesday from an individual reporting the discovery of human remains at the solid waste facility on River Road. Officials with the state medical examiner’s office assisted in the collection of the remains along with state...

Police are investigating the discovery of human remains over the weekend in a marshy area near Interstate 295 outside Portland, Maine. The state medical examiner’s office is working to identify the remains, and police have alerted the family of a Richmond woman who has been missing since November 2019. Anneliese Heinig was 37 when she was last seen walking along…

Maine State Police are investigating the discovery of human remains found over the weekend in Casco. A family member told police they were cleaning out the residence of their father who died earlier in the year on Saturday afternoon when they found the skeletal remains in an outbuilding on the property, located at 196 Poland Springs Road. Police described the…

Human remains have been found at a house in Winchester, Massachusetts, prosecutors said Monday. The office of Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan said the remains were found Thursday at a residence. The bones were discovered by contractors doing demolition work at the home. Ryan’s office said the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has confirmed that the bones...

A company’s plan to retrieve the Titanic’s radio has sparked a debate over whether the famous shipwreck still holds human remains

Massachusetts authorities are investigating the discovery of human remains at a power plant in Lawrence.

The partial human remains discovered by hunters earlier in the week in Blanford, Massachusetts, have been identified, according to the Hampden District Attorney’s office. The remains, discovered by hunters, were found Sunday off Herrick Road in the Knittel Conservation area.

Skeletal remains found in a wooded area have authorities in Wareham, Massachusetts investigating.

Human remains in a wooded area near a shopping plaza in Wareham, Massachusetts, were discovered Monday afternoon, according to state police assigned to the Plymouth County District Attorney’s office. Wareham police responded to an area near Cranberry Plaza Monday around noon after they said possible human remains were discovered by a person looking for a lost item.

The discovery of human remains near a reservoir in Waltham, Massachusetts, are under investigation, according to the Middlesex District Attorney’s office. The remains were found Thursday near the Cambridge Reservoir.

Authorities say a man who was burying a pet in the backyard of the home he rents in Modesto discovered human remains.

It’s a largely overlooked but gory reality of the New York City subway system: When someone takes their life by jumping in front of a train, police need to find a place to put the mutilated body until a medical examiner truck arrives.

An investigation is underway in North Attleboro, Massachusetts after human remains were found in the woods.

An investigation is underway in North Attleboro, Massachusetts after human remains were found in the woods.