Mowing grass leads to skeleton that is not a fake Halloween prop, NC police say
Mock skeletons are everywhere in the weeks leading up to Halloween, but a real one turned up as someone was mowing grass in eastern North Carolina, police say.
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The grisly discovery was made just before 9 a.m. Saturday in west Jacksonville, about a 120-mile drive southeast from downtown Raleigh.
“The Jacksonville Police Department responded to the wooded area at the corner of Yopp Road and U.S. 17 in reference to a skeleton being found by a citizen mowing the grass,” police said in an Oct. 3 news release.
“Officers arrived on scene and located a human skeleton. With the assistance of the N.C. State Bureau of Investigations, the scene was processed.”
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Evidence found at the scene has given detectives “a potential identification” of the person, but the theory awaits confirmation by the State Medical Examiner’s Office, officials said.
A cause of death has not been released.
Maps show the intersection of Yopp Road and U.S. 17 is lined with acres of open grass.
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