Yes cvaldez I have been thinking the SAME thing... and thinking Robert Evans like you said earlier..wow.. and Yes he was in Idaho in I believe 1987/88.. he left with a stolen car and was busted Nov of 88 in California.. so who is to say...
oh I just realized I have repeated what carbuff and kaylara owl said.. well yeah I guess we are all here on the same page!!
I wouldn't put any money on the remains being related Robert Evans just yet...
I was going to say, "
unless he helped tip someone off about the remains," but forgot that he's been dead for as long as he's been dead. With the recent connection to the NH remains, I think that it would be a big (actually, gigantic) coincidence if they are related to Evans in any way.
Ted Bundy traveled all around the country and killed a lot of women on his path. There were many women killed in the area and time-frame of his journey that weren't killed by Bundy. The same goes with many people that Henry Lee Lucas actually "confessed" to killing. It eventually turned out that it was virtually impossible for him to have actually killed some (many?) of his claimed victims.
I didn't save the links, but I actually saw a few stories proposing that the remains could have been people that were travelling the Oregon Trail over a century ago. Hopefully, testing will soon give us a more precise time of death (along with sex/race/etc).
And I have a question that's not really off-topic, but related to the animals involved. I've lived all my life in Kentucky and figured that badgers lived at least somewhere in my state. They apparently don't. In fact, it doesn't look like they live anywhere in the South/Southeast US.
Would a badger hole be something akin to a "groundhog hole," like we have many of in my area?
Or would they have homes more like beavers (i.e. in/around water)?
And are badgers "hoarders?" By that, I mean would it be possible for the badgers to have come across the bones and they brought them to their den themselves? Or is it fairly certain that an actual person shoved the remains into the badger's hole? I just know there were "bones" there, but don't know how disarticulated they were.