IL IL - Galesburg, 400 block E Losey St, bones found in attic during reno, Aug'21

[TootsieFootsie]

Galesburg homeowners find bones in attic during renovations, police investigating


GALESBURG, Ill. (KWQC) - Galesburg Police are investigating what appear to be human bones found in an attic during renovations.

On Thursday Galesburg Police told TV6 they’re still waiting for testing to be completed.

 

[victoriarobinson642]

Sounds like they're pretty old - hopefully not another case of someone finding bones and taking them home.

 

[Laughing]

Sounds like they're pretty old - hopefully not another case of someone finding bones and taking them home.

Well, possibly preferable to find a living human to take home to end up as bones....

jmho ymmv lrr

 

[YaYa_521]

Paul Gordon Love went missing in Galesburg back in 1947. I wonder if he knew anyone who lived in or near the home.

The Doe Network: Case File 4263DMIL
IL - IL - Paul Love, 22, Galesburg, 2 Oct 1947

Galesburg police investigating after possible human bones found in home
SBBM
According to a police report, an officer responded at 4:40 p.m. Saturday to a home in the 400 block of East Losey Street.

 

[LaborDayRN]

Galesburg homeowners find bones in attic during renovations, police investigating

The new homeowners purchased the nearly 150 year old home in March and have been renovating the property since then.

If the house is nearly 150 years old, I wonder if these are very old bones? But then again, you'd think someone else would have been in the attic in all those years. How would they go unnoticed?

 

[YaYa_521]

I'd be really interested in knowing more about the newspaper found with the remains. How old? MOO

Galesburg homeowners find bones in attic during renovations, police investigating

RSBM
Pieces of old newspaper were attached to the hip joint end of the bone, according to the report.

 

[LaborDayRN]

Paul Gordon Love went missing in Galesburg back in 1947. I wonder if he knew anyone who lived in or near the home.

The Doe Network: Case File 4263DMIL
IL - IL - Paul Love, 22, Galesburg, 2 Oct 1947

Galesburg police investigating after possible human bones found in home
SBBM
According to a police report, an officer responded at 4:40 p.m. Saturday to a home in the 400 block of East Losey Street.

I wonder if this old home ever had ties to the University of Illinois Galesburg? Could it have been used at extension offices or maybe fraternity or sorority housing?

 

[carbuff]

Galesburg homeowners find bones in attic during renovations, police investigating

The new homeowners purchased the nearly 150 year old home in March and have been renovating the property since then.

If the house is nearly 150 years old, I wonder if these are very old bones? But then again, you'd think someone else would have been in the attic in all those years. How would they go unnoticed?

It says they were in a box tucked back by the chimney, so unless somebody opened the box, they wouldn't know.

 

[Laughing]

I wonder if this old home ever had ties to the University of Illinois Galesburg? Could it have been used at extension offices or maybe fraternity or sorority housing?

What happens in the Extension offices in your state???

No bones in ours.

Yes, in the past some programs may have used a teaching skeleton.

Wonder if the building was ever a funeral home?

 

[mrz]

Bones in a box? If it was some sort of foul play, wouldn't the culprit or culprits do something like bury them? Maybe a loved one they didn't have the means to dispose of properly?

 

[LaborDayRN]

What happens in the Extension offices in your state???

No bones in ours.

Yes, in the past some programs may have used a teaching skeleton.

Wonder if the building was ever a funeral home?

Honestly I was thinking more along the lines of the frat and sorority houses but did think of school extensions because of the skeletons we used while I was in nursing school. I'm sorry if I implied something that upset you.

 

[Laughing]

Honestly I was thinking more along the lines of the frat and sorority houses but did think of school extensions because of the skeletons we used while I was in nursing school. I'm sorry if I implied something that upset you.

Upset, oh no, just saw a chance for a laugh. I'm an Extension educator, and have three of these


image from erath.agrilife.com

in my office, plenty of plastic foods, hula hoops, bean bags, fishing poles, coolers, table cloths, traffic cones, a Smoothie Bike, yada yada yada but no bones.

An adjacent county has a Livestock specialist, so maybe there?

All sorts of continuing education happens from campus -- including nursing, medical, fire/resuce, and LE -- you could be spot on.

Wouldn't surprise me a bit!

 

[meanmaryjean]

Connection to an Odd Fellows Lodge maybe? I seem to remember something about them using skeletons in their rituals.

 

[MissUnderstood]

Wonder if any previous owners have a missing family member!!!

 

[Laughing]

Connection to an Odd Fellows Lodge maybe? I seem to remember something about them using skeletons in their rituals.

We have a thread about one of those! Search was not my friend earlier....

KS - Ks - Skeleton Found In Coffin In Business Attic In Derby, *graphic Pics* June 2018

Maybe something similar in Galesburg?

 

[YaYa_521]

Here's another possible explanation for the bones in the box.

Box of bones found in Illinois attic had 'femur of a leg and so it was weird'

SBM

The home’s history includes a doctor who lived there 100 years ago. “1920 or somewhere there was a doctor that lived there so it might have to do something with that ..."

 

[MarziPanda]

Bones in a box? If it was some sort of foul play, wouldn't the culprit or culprits do something like bury them? Maybe a loved one they didn't have the means to dispose of properly?

You'd be surprised at the amount of people who have killed (whether a stranger or a family member) and just kept the body in their house. It's not uncommon, even if it sounds odd.

 

[mrz]

You'd be surprised at the amount of people who have killed (whether a stranger or a family member) and just kept the body in their house. It's not uncommon, even if it sounds odd.

I don't think I would be all that surprised. I know killers sometimes keep bodies in homes far into the decomposition stages. Im just leaning toward a different scenario given the evidence given so far.

 

[BrownBear]

This article has some more details.

 

[LaborDayRN]

This article has some more details.

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