RCSO identifies suspicious bone as non-human thanks to recent Augusta University grad

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) - The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office has determined a suspicious bone to be non-human.

It was discovered in the backyard of an Augusta home on the 2000 block of Naples Drive, just off of Barton Chapel Road.

We’re now taking a look at the resources they’re putting to use to help with these kinds of investigations.

The Crime Scene Unit at the Sheriff’s Office has received multiple phone calls this year for different suspicious bones.

These investigations require the work of a forensic anthropologist, which they now have access to in-house.

It’s a resource required for law enforcement agencies, but not always on-hand at the local level.

That’s now changed for the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office with 2021 Augusta University graduate Madison Montoya.

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