OKTIBBEHA COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) – The Oktibbeha County Sheriff’s Office and Starkville Police joined forces on an investigation.

Human remains were found off Stuart Road in Oktibbeha County Thursday.

The Oktibbeha County Sheriff’s Office and Starkville Police have been conducting an investigation in the wooded area for a number of months.

The agencies called Cobb Institute of Archaeology at MSU to confirm what they found that morning.

“Based on our previous knowledge of human anatomy, and what I teach the students here based on comparative anatomy, we could tell that it is more consistent with human than versus not human, thinking of like a deer or dog, or some other four-legged animal,” said Mississippi State Archeologist Dr. Jesse Goliath.

The institute’s senior research associate Dr

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