Pool construction crews discover remains
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Pool construction crew makes discovery
By Laura Hand
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 4:08 p.m.
Read more: Local, Crime, Forensics, Body Parts, Oneida County, Taberg, State Police
TABERG, ONEIDA COUNTY -- A pool construction company excavating in a backyard in Taberg unearthed a skull on Wednesday morning. Oneida County 911 was called, and State Police brought in a forensics team which worked along Ranney Road all day.
Bureau of Criminal Investigation Investigator Dustin Hite says the remains appear to be human, but lab tests will have to confirm that as well as an identity. Hite says the homes in the area are fairly new, and that the area was a corn field for at least 70 years before that.
While photographer Brian Erb and I watched, several other pieces of evidence were pulled from the site. Some evidence was taken from the hill of soil that had been excavated, and some from down in the pit. Troopers' heads were barely visible at the top of the hole, and they were still determining how far down the body was found. Everything brought out was put in bags, to be taken to a forensics lab for further examination and identification.
Troopers said they thought they'd be done at the scene fairly quickly, with work on the family pool to start in time to have it done for Memorial Day.
