In today’s strange, strange news, Charleston-based nonprofit Wounded Nature announced that they found a human jawbone during a coastal cleanup on the southern end of Long Island back in May.
Wounded Nature is a group that gives veterans a chance to volunteer removing trash and debris from coastal areas. While doing just that in New York on May 18, they found the lower part of a human jawbone in the marsh along the Jamaica Bay shoreline.
Investigators were able to determine that the jawbone belongs to an unidentified woman whose body was found along the shores of Jamaica Bay three years ago.
The New York Police Department and Medical Examiner’s office would like the public’s help in identifying the body. You can look at more details of the case online.
Teaser image credit: Flickr user Jeffrey Bary
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