MA Police investigating after human remains found on Nantucket Island

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Men searching for deer antler sheds find human remains in Nantucket, police say

Two men searching for deer antler sheds Thursday in Nantucket, Massachusetts, discovered human remains, according to authorities. Police received a call just after 5 p.m. about human remains being found near the east end of the island, Nantucket police said Friday. When officers arrived, they...

www.nbcboston.com

Police investigating after human remains found on Nantucket

Police have launched an investigation after human remains were found Thursday on Nantucket.

www.boston25news.com

includes map showing location: Human remains found on Nantucket in dense woodland - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News

A lot more information in the local paper: Human remains found in Tom Nevers

"[The two missing local people]...are Margaret Kilcoyne and Mary Macy, two women that both went missing around the area the bones were found but at different times in history. Kilcoyne went missing in 1980. She was last seen by her brother and dinner guests before disappearing into a swamp near her Sconset property. Her body was never found. Macy went missing in 2015 after being last seen on Milestone Road not far from her east-end residence. She was also never found."

Mary Macy's Namus: The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

There are also three men who disappeared in the area. One drowned offshore (John Fitzgerald) The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs))

and two men, Mark Van Nest and Kenneth Antolino, went missing with their airplane:

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

 

[CCJD]

Simone Ridinger?

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

ETA link to Simone's thread

MA - MA - Simone Ridinger, 17, Sherborn, 2 Sept 1977

Ruled out as a result of dental comparison. The Doe Network: Case File 1255DFMA Simone Stephanie Ridinger Missing since September 2, 1977 from Sherborn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Classification: Endangered Missing http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1255dfma.html Vital...

www.websleuths.com

 

[carbuff]

Hm, could be. Wouldn't that be something.

 

[CCJD]

Hm, could be. Wouldn't that be something.

BBM - the exact thing I was thinking

 

[GoBuckeyes]

How far away is this location from where Maura Murray went missing? I'm sure it's far away from here, but the question popped into my head anyway. TIA

 

[iamshadow21]

How far away is this location from where Maura Murray went missing? I'm sure it's far away from here, but the question popped into my head anyway. TIA

Google says a four hour drive.

haverhill to nantucket island - Google Search

 

[carbuff]

Google says a four hour drive.

haverhill to nantucket island - Google Search

That's Haverhill MA showing on your map, not Haverhill NH which is another couple of hours to the north. Haverhill NH is more like six hours if the weather is good.

Here's Haverhill NH: Haverhill to Nantucket

 

[DD Byrd]

Plus a ferry ride from Hyannis (Cape Cod), after getting a ride south to Bourne then down the Cape, essentially out to just below the "elbow." The steamship authority has cameras, but IDK how long they'd be kept for review. Especially in winter months, and to look for a MP from another state. I think Maura is still in the NH woods, but you never know.

I'm curious about Simone as well, though (I think) she was ultimately headed to Martha's Vineyard. You can take the ferry between MV and Nantucket though, maybe she was stopping somewhere first. For all three women I wonder about the bones being on the surface versus under almost half a century of leaf litter. The 'trees' there are more scrub brush, beach plums etc, but still a great volume of leaves, sticks, cones, and thorny debris over that long a time. I guess a skull could stay up top if constantly nudged by animals or on some uneven rock outcropping where leaves would blow off before getting a chance to build up.

If Margaret disappeared into wetlands, it would likely suck a body down (assuming she died or was placed there). But wetlands shrink, and IDK if that stretch of Milestone had pockets of marshy areas then. It's certainly possible the remains were submerged at one point and water recession 'unearthed' them. That they can tell from an autopsy.

And Macy was ON Milestone from what we know. At least someone will get his or her name back. The officer's comment on the teeth is very promising, as we know having dental records (especially specifics) up the chances of identification, and quickly.

 

[carbuff]

Another article Human remains found on Nantucket gives the location more precisely: "officers arrived to find the remains in a dense woodland area off Milestone Road near Philips Run swamp in Tom Nevers."

Tom Nevers is a village on the south shore of the island. It's set between two swamps; the one on the right side of the red box in the attached photo is marked as Philips Run.The description sounds like the remains were nearer to Milestone Road than to the ocean.

Tom Nevers · Nantucket, MA 02554

Nantucket, MA 02554

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[Laughing]

Cannot find the threads here, may have been deleted because of the children?

Who remembers this? iirc, only a lower leg & boot were found, eventually:

Family: No mystery to missing boater

NANTUCKET — The sea took Jonathan Hemingway, Nancy Rappaport's only child, when he fell overboard a week ago while ferrying his wife and two young daughters back from Hyannis in his 23-foot boat.

www.capecodtimes.com

One year later, few answers in missing Nantucket boater case

NANTUCKET — A year has passed since island landscaper Jon Hemingway disappeared under strange circumstances during a late-night crossing of Nantucket Sound with his family, never to be heard from a…

www.capecodtimes.com

Rampant speculation at the time that certain people wanted out of a situation, and might have, er, really gone out on a limb to do so.

jmho ymmv lrr

 

[carbuff]

We've had a number of storms this winter in New England with heavy rain that could have washed bones out of a shallow grave.

 

[DD Byrd]

Rampant speculation at the time that certain people wanted out of a situation, and might have, er, really gone out on a limb to do so.

Hmm. Regardless of where HE went, I'd find it unusual his phone was left on deck, depending on what kind of boat it was. Leaving the harbor at 9pm, in March no less, with maritime winds would be nippy even for a phone that you'd undoubtedly want to protect with your family onboard. I wouldn't have it on the console if actively moving and there was any chop. It would be in his pocket, and presumably floating/sinking with him when it died. I can see where speculation ran amuck, the only reason to keep the phone is to prove it was called at a realistic time. But that's just a one-off. The totality of doors being jammed, he walked miles w/o telling them he was going (leaving his phone on deck?), a friend saying he was alive, etc.

As for the Milestone Doe, this is already inland enough that it's not (directly) ocean related. Hoping there are answers for a family and/or loved ones soon.

 

[carbuff]

I'll be astonished if it's not Mary Macy. She went missing only about a mile or so from where the remains were found.

 

[BeginnerSleuther]

Google says a four hour drive.

haverhill to nantucket island - Google Search

Nantucket is only accessible by boat or ferry. Maura went missing in winter. I think the chance of it being her is next to 0. MOO.

 

[DD Byrd]

Mary seems more likely based on 2015. If she was unearthed and scattered in that time there would likely be more bones found...skull and what sounds like femur or humerus. Unfortunate she wasn't found earlier (if she was there the whole time and not moved) since it doesn't seem she was too far from the road, but hindsight is definitely 20/20 on a search.

 

[Maccoombs]

The location where the body was found actually right near Margaret Kilcoyne's home in the Tom Nevin neighborhood. And found almost exactly where items belonging to Margaret Kilcoyne were located back in 1980 right after her disappearance. If you look at this article, there is a hand drawn map showing her house and the location of the different items.

Nantucket's Greatest Unsolved Mystery: The Disappearance Of Dr.…

Nantucket Current is the island's leading online news source. We deliver the news, stories, and people of Nantucket, unbiased and unfiltered.

nantucketcurrent.com

The location of the body can be found at this link provided by an earlier poster:

Human remains found on Nantucket in dense woodland - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News

NANTUCKET, MASS. (WHDH) - The Nantucket Police Department confirmed that human remains were found near the east end of the island Thursday afternoon.According to police,<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/human-remains-found-on-nantucket-in-dense-woodland/">Read More</a>

whdh.com

Maybe this is a coincidence, but her NamUs profile is also no longer there.

 

[iamshadow21]

The location where the body was found actually right near Margaret Kilcoyne's home in the Tom Nevin neighborhood. And found almost exactly where items belonging to Margaret Kilcoyne were located back in 1980 right after her disappearance. If you look at this article, there is a hand drawn map showing her house and the location of the different items.

Nantucket's Greatest Unsolved Mystery: The Disappearance Of Dr.…

Nantucket Current is the island's leading online news source. We deliver the news, stories, and people of Nantucket, unbiased and unfiltered.

nantucketcurrent.com

The location of the body can be found at this link provided by an earlier poster:

Human remains found on Nantucket in dense woodland - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News

NANTUCKET, MASS. (WHDH) - The Nantucket Police Department confirmed that human remains were found near the east end of the island Thursday afternoon.According to police,<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/human-remains-found-on-nantucket-in-dense-woodland/">Read More</a>

whdh.com

Maybe this is a coincidence, but her NamUs profile is also no longer there.

It wouldn't be the first time a search missed somebody who was right there all along.

MOO

 

[carbuff]

Wow. Yeah.

 

[JerseyWasHome2]

The location where the body was found actually right near Margaret Kilcoyne's home in the Tom Nevin neighborhood. And found almost exactly where items belonging to Margaret Kilcoyne were located back in 1980 right after her disappearance. If you look at this article, there is a hand drawn map showing her house and the location of the different items.

Nantucket's Greatest Unsolved Mystery: The Disappearance Of Dr.…

Nantucket Current is the island's leading online news source. We deliver the news, stories, and people of Nantucket, unbiased and unfiltered.

nantucketcurrent.com

The location of the body can be found at this link provided by an earlier poster:

Human remains found on Nantucket in dense woodland - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News

NANTUCKET, MASS. (WHDH) - The Nantucket Police Department confirmed that human remains were found near the east end of the island Thursday afternoon.According to police,<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/human-remains-found-on-nantucket-in-dense-woodland/">Read More</a>

whdh.com

Maybe this is a coincidence, but her NamUs profile is also no longer there.

Thanks so much for that article - incredibly detailed and fascinating.

 

[nhmemorymaker]

The location where the body was found actually right near Margaret Kilcoyne's home in the Tom Nevin neighborhood. And found almost exactly where items belonging to Margaret Kilcoyne were located back in 1980 right after her disappearance. If you look at this article, there is a hand drawn map showing her house and the location of the different items.

Nantucket's Greatest Unsolved Mystery: The Disappearance Of Dr.…

Nantucket Current is the island's leading online news source. We deliver the news, stories, and people of Nantucket, unbiased and unfiltered.

nantucketcurrent.com

The location of the body can be found at this link provided by an earlier poster:

Human remains found on Nantucket in dense woodland - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News

NANTUCKET, MASS. (WHDH) - The Nantucket Police Department confirmed that human remains were found near the east end of the island Thursday afternoon.According to police,<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/human-remains-found-on-nantucket-in-dense-woodland/">Read More</a>

whdh.com

Maybe this is a coincidence, but her NamUs profile is also no longer there.

Well........ what an amazing history ride that was....
I haven't even read the second one yet!!