Resolved NY - Columbia Co, Skeletal Remains off 1590 Rt 9J, Stuyvesant, Apr 2019

[Gardener1850]

Monday, April 8, 2019

STUYVESANT – The Columbia County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the discovery of skeletal remains.

At about 1p.m. on Sunday, the sheriff’s office received a call from an individual who was doing excavation work on private property in the Town of Stuyvesant. The caller said he discovered the remains on the property off Route 9J in Stuyvesant.

Skeletal remains found in Columbia County

The Columbia County Sheriff's Office says human skeletal remains were found in the area just off of 1590 Route 9J in Stuyvesant, NY, Sunday afternoon. The area where the remains were found is at the top of a very steep hill in a wooded location on a private property. The top of the hill remains blocked off with crime tape at this time.
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Authorities say they do not believe these are new remains and are working with a state anthropologist and a pathologist to determine the age of the remains. The Sheriff's Office says the investigation is in it's infancy stages and no additional information is available at this time.

Skeletal remains found by contractor working on private property in Columbia County

 

[Gardener1850]

Approximate location: Google Maps

 

[Gardener1850]

David Bacon's thread says that he "may have been buried along the Hudson River in Troy or was taken out of state, possibly to a Southern state".
These remains are about 24 miles south of Troy and not far from the Hudson River.
NY - NY - David Bacon, 22, Waterford, 10 April 1969
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[doodles1211]

Skeletal remains found Sunday at an excavation site in the town of Stuyvesant have been positively identified as human and are historical in nature, according to Columbia County Sheriff David P. Bartlett.

The investigation will continue, but the property is no longer considered a crime scene, Bartlett said.

Human skeletal remains no longer deemed suspicious | Hudson Valley 360

 

[mrroofman]

Unidentified Person / NamUs #UP6700

NY - NY - David Bacon, 22, Waterford, 10 April 1969