Mushroom hunter finds human remains

Mushroom hunter finds human remains

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 HENRIETTA – New information is available about human remains discovered in rural Ray County. “We had a mushroom hunter go out into a rural part of the county” and came upon skeletal remains April 27, Sheriff Scott Childers said Monday. No location for the discovery is being released, Childers said. “I don’t want people going out that way looking themselves,” he said. Childers revealed a few new details but expressed reluctance overall to provide more due to calls from people – in pain and seeking closure over the loss of a loved one – who want to know whether the remains might belong to the person they lost. Preliminary information from an anthropologist suggests the remains are female, under age 30 and missing for less than three years. Releasing those limited details might help people looking for missing men to look elsewhere, he said, but Childers emphasized the preliminary review m...

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