WASHINGTON, D.C. — Police are working to identify the three sets of adult female skeletal remains they found buried under an apartment building in Washington, D.C.
A construction crew found the first human skull on Wednesday in a crawl space beneath the building inside 113 Wayne Place SE.
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Then, after bringing in cadaver dogs to search the property, police announced on Saturday that they had discovered the remains of two additional women in a shallow grave in a wooded area behind the same apartment building.
The women have been buried behind the apartment for at least one year, Dr. Roger Mitchell, Jr., the city’s chief medical examiner, said at a press conference on Tuesday. Mitchell also said that the bodies were commingled in the grave. No personal effects or clothing were found with the bones.
Investigators will now likely use DNA evidence from the women in order to attempt to find possible family members, Mitchell said. Police are also looking through active missing persons cases to see if they can identify potential matches.
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Homicide detectives are actively investigating the case. “It’s an undetermined death at this point, but circumstances certainly rise to the level of suspicious, so our homicide unit is involved,” Washington D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham said.
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Main photo: Photo of human remains found in Southeast Washington, D.C. [Fox News (screenshot)]
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