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D.C. police are investigating the discovery of what appears to be human remains at a Southeast apartment building Wednesday afternoon, officials said.

A construction crew called police to the 100 block of Wayne Place about 3:30 p.m., officials said. Officers found what appeared to be human remains in a crawl space under the building at the rear of the property, according to a D.C. police report.

The remains were not confirmed as human and police are awaiting the results of testing by the medical examiner’s office, officials said.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.954862218812

Sources told News4 the construction workers found what appeared to be a human skull.

It was not immediately clear how long the remains had been there, or how they got there.
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The initial discovery occurred Wednesday, as workers excavated an area at the rear of the building.

On Thursday, forensics investigators identified two other locations behind the building where there also appear to be human remains. One of the areas is in the backyard, near a dumpster; the other is in a wooded area behind the building.
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https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/...Remains-Near-Southeast-DC-Home-480984691.html
 
alexwood said:
Wondering if this could be Unique Harris. She disappeared from her apartment in Southeast (SE) Washington, D.C. on October 9, 2010.

Unique Harris' Websleuths thread:
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/s...ington-DC-10-Oct-2010&highlight=Unique+Harris

Also, a link to The Vanished Podcast, Episode 116 (aired March 10, 2018)
http://www.thevanishedpodcast.com/episodes/2018/3/10/episode-116-unique-harris
Unique Harris - Missing from her SE Washington, D.C. apartment since Oct. 9, 2010
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Distance from her Apt to the location of these remains is about 2.6 miles: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/100...2c0037f43188571!2m2!1d-76.971698!2d38.8544335

It's possible it's her, but there are so many people missing in DC.
 
[h=1]2 human bodies, skeletal remains found near Southeast DC apartment, Chief Med. Examiner confirms[/h]
WASHINGTON - The D.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner confirms two bodies have been found near a Southeast D.C. apartment complex, in the same area where police say human skeletal remains were found Wednesday.

Investigators say the remains were found in Congress Heights at the 100 block of Wayne Place, Southeast by construction workers who were working on a building project, who then contacted police.

The remains were transported to the D.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for further examination, officials say.

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined that the skeletal remains were human on Friday.

Detectives say further testing will be conducted.
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http://www.fox5dc.com/news/local-news/skeletal-remains-found-near-southeast-dc-apartment

:eek: :scared:
 
[h=1]2 Bodies Found Near Southeast DC Apartment Building[/h]
Two sets of human remains have been uncovered behind a Southeast D.C. apartment building where construction workers recently found a human skull, a medical examiner's office official said.

One set of human remains was uncovered at the apartment on Wayne Place Southeast on Saturday, one day after officials confirmed the remains found at the apartment on Wednesday are human.

Officials were unable to say if the bodies were male or female.
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The medical examiner confirmed on Friday that the first set of remains are human, police said. Police then opened a death investigation.

Another set of human remains was found on Saturday, the D.C. medical examiner's office told News4. Officials confirmed two sets of human remains have been found in total: one earlier in the week and one on Saturday. Officials initially said two sets of remains were found on Saturday.
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It was not immediately clear how long the remains had been there, or how they got there. Recovery efforts will continue, police say.
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https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/...outheast-DC-Apartment-Building-481150651.html
 
silverjug said:
This gets worse by the minute.
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You aren't kidding! Now some sources are saying 3 people have been found:

2 more sets of skeletal remains, 3 overall, found behind D.C. apartment building

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — Two more sets of skeletal remains were found behind a D.C. apartment building Saturday, bringing the total to three overall.

D.C. police said all three sets of remains were found near in apartment building in the 100 block of Wayne Place, SE, where workers are performing construction.
The first set was found Wednesday and determined on Friday by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to be human. Further testing on that is still to come, police said.

The other two sets are being sent to Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for further examination, though police believe those remains are also human.
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http://wjla.com/news/local/2-more-sets-skeletal-remains-found-dc-apartment-building
 
Gardener1850 said:
Verdell Jefferson was last seen on May 1, 2006, at her home on Wayne Place, SE.

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/21348/

I'm guessing this is Verdell. :( :moo:
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I made a thread for Verdell: https://www.websleuths.com/forums/s...dell-Jefferson-41-SE-Washington-DC-1-May-2006

I still have a feeling one of the sets of remains could be her since she lived in on the same street where these remains were found . Please add to her thread anything else you can find about the circumstances of her disappearance, or any other records for her. If one of these sets of remains belongs to her, maybe the other two are people connected to her in some way. Perhaps we can figure out if she knew any other women who disappeared.
 
Yikes. Three sets of remains. That’s terrifying.
 
This rings some bells, huh? I'll have to follow this case.
 
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The woods behind Toia King’s house in Southeast Washington, once a playground for her children to hike, collect sticks and build forts, have become a scary place.

Now, the area is roped off by hundreds of feet of yellow crime-scene tape tied to tree limbs and stakes pounded into the dirt, marking where D.C. police over the past four days found the skeletal remains of two females, along with a third set inside a crawl space of an apartment building.

This residential neighborhood of apartments and single-family homes where Wayne Place meets Mississippi Avenue in Congress Heights, a half-mile from the Anacostia Freeway, is now a macabre crime scene that on Saturday was crowded with authorities in windbreakers with “homicide” and “forensic investigator” stitched on the backs.

On Sunday, two police cruisers guarded the scene — quieter, but no less discomforting.
“Nobody knows what’s going on,” said King, who works for the District’s Public Works Department and has lived in her house since 2006. Her concerns echoed the fears and chatter of her neighbors. The bodies, she said, “could have been there for years.”
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The first set of remains was found Wednesday by construction workers renovating a ground-floor apartment in the 100 block of Wayne Place SE. Andrea Stephens, 47, a nurse who rents the apartment, said contractors were working to fix several problems when they found the skull in a basement crawl space. Police then found the rest of the remains, also in the crawl space.

“It just unfolded from there,” said Stephens, who has lived in the building for about a year. “I’m living there for now,” she said, “but I’m going to figure something out. It’s creepy. I don’t really want to be there.”
On Saturday, authorities recovered two more sets of remains in the back woods.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...e8-84a0-458a1aa9ac0a_story.html?noredirect=on
 
It’s now the job of the medical examiner to try to identify the remains, their age, how long the victims have been dead and the cause of death. LaShon Beamon, spokeswoman for the D.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, said police and forensic investigators will be back on the scene Monday searching for additional clues.

Beamon would not say whether* officials are looking for more bodies. D.C. police, who did not respond to requests for comment Sunday, have not said whether any other evidence, such as clothing or personal items, was discovered.

Roger Mitchell Jr., the District’s chief medical examiner, said authorities have to painstakingly examine the grounds to make sure all the skeletal remains are recovered. He said the agency’s forensic anthropologist, Jennifer Love, will clean the bones and try to assemble each of the skeletons.
“Then we will make an evaluation of what we can say or determine — age, race, gender and whether there is evidence of disease or injury,” he said.
Mitchell said the process “can take some time,” adding: “We are working diligently to get it done as fast as we can. . . . We understand the community’s interests and concerns.”
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The remains were found in Ward 8, an area of the District that has been struggling with crime. Of the 42 homicides this year, 21 have occurred there, helping push the number of killings across the city up 17 percent over last year.

Without facts from police, residents speculated Sunday on whom the remains might belong to. Some mentioned the possibility of finally finding Relisha Rudd, who was 8 years old when she went missing in 2014 from the homeless shelter at the former D.C. General Hospital, where she had been living with her family.

Mary J. Cuthbert, who chairs the Advisory Neighborhood Commission for the neighborhood where the remains were found, mentioned the notorious and still-at-large serial killer called the Freeway Phantom. Police say he killed six girls and young women ages 10 through 18 over 16 months starting in 1971. The victims were raped and strangled, their bodies left along or near busy roads and highways in the District and Maryland.
“We had a lot of homicides and a lot of young ladies missing,” Cuthbert said.

But James Trainum, a retired D.C. homicide detective who reinvestigated the Freeway Phantom case in the mid-2000s, said Sunday that the killer nearly 50 years ago “was pretty much dumping the victims out in the open, in places where they were bound to be discovered.” These latest remains were all hidden.
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Relisha Rudd's thread: https://www.websleuths.com/forums/s...lisha-Tenau-Rudd-8-SE-DC-26-Feb-2014-9/page66
 
I recall a mother and daughter from MD being missing. idk how far that is though.
 
cvaldez1975 said:
I recall a mother and daughter from MD being missing. idk how far that is though.
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Joanna and Sharice Clark? I have to look up their exact address, but this address where the bodies were found is 40 miles from the center of Baltimore.

ETA: Joanna and Sharice Clark were last seen on the 2800 block of Round Rd. in Baltimore, MD. That is a 38.7 mile distance, about 55 minutes.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/113...a9ee45b6c1!2m2!1d-76.6275124!2d39.2459557!3e0
 
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