Drought conditions across the country are devastating this year and the mighty Mississippi is looking mighty dry.
A woman walking along the drought-revealed banks of the Mississippi River found some bones along the new shoreline. Officials are saying that the bones belonged to a person.
From CNN:
The remains include a lower jawbone, rib bones and some unidentified bone pieces, Coahoma County, Mississippi, Chief Medical Examiner Scotty Meredith told CNN.
The bones will be sent to the state crime lab for further analysis, Meredith said. Investigators will try to extract DNA from the remains so they can compare it to missing persons cases, he said.
She recognized that these were probably human remains and called the authorities.
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is now trying to find out where the remains came from.
Crystal Foster told CNN affiliate WMC that she found the bones on Saturday while looking for rocks with her family near Clarksdale, Mississippi – about 80 miles southwest of Memphis, Tennessee.
They often look around the river banks and the water levels are particularly low right now, she said.
Foster said she and her family recognized the bones as possibly human and contacted the Coahoma County Sheriff's Office.
"I just hope that the MBI (Mississippi Bureau of Investigation) works quickly on this case and is able to identify the victim to the dental records at the very least so that way their family can get closure because that would bring me some peace at least," Foster told WMC.
Hopefully investigators can solve this mystery.
This case in Mississippi comes on the heels of other cases, especially in Nevada at Lake Mead, where five sets of human remains have been found this year alone.
