A man found human remains while working on renovations at a house in Greene County, and now work is being done to identify them.
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The bones were found Tuesday at a home in the area of U.S. 68 and Clifton Road in Xenia Township.
Texas EquuSearch responded to the scene to help excavate the bones, which was not an easy task.
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“Part of the house needed to be structurally brought up to speed so it wouldn’t collapse on us,” David Rader, Midwest Director of Texas EquuSearch, said.
Rader said firefighters came to the home a braced it so they could do their recovery work. They began digging all around the porch of the home to locate any human remains possible.
“I mean, we got down there further, and the further we got down, the more other things that we were finding, other than the human side of it, where it was a lot of animal bones that were identified,” he said.
On News Center 7 at 5:00, Rader said once they’d located all the human remains in the porch area, they began expanding the search.
“We did go into the crawl space of the house, which did yield a few more bones,” Rader said.
Once they finished the crawl space excavation, they checked all around the area, looking for any ground that looked previously dug up or disturbed.
They then went one step further.
“We decided to call dogs in, let them run the area, let them run through what we had previously processed,” he explained. “They didn’t find anything else.”
The bones recovered by Texas EquuSearch were brought to the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office and Crime Lab for more confirmation and potential testing.
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