Identified! KS - Sedgwick Co., Skeletal Remains in salvage yard, Dec'15 - James Labat

[creepedout]

http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article47532315.html

A hunter found skeletal remains in an old salvage yard north of Wichita on Tuesday, 12/01/15.

They were in between Park City and Kechi in the 6500 block of north Hillside, a rural and wooded area:

https://goo.gl/maps/5PRDh29n8JT2

As of now, no age or gender has been released.

 

[Romulus]

Found this profiles

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/5392/30/ April Wiss

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/23001/16/ Erin Gray

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/2897/25/ Jennifer Wilson

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/6633/26/ Jaquilla Scales

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/373/1/ Vivian Botz

 

[ClaireNC]

Here is another article with an update saying they are still searching that area today: http://www.kwch.com/news/local-news/hunter-finds-human-remains-in-sedgwick-county/36757130

They are being very thorough with their search for clues. I suspect they know more than they are telling the public.

 

[KaylaraOwl]

Adult men missing from around that area: https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/7302/0/ Franklin Harrod, Jr. https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/26586/0/ Jeffrey Andes
https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/12894/0/ John Krafft III

 

[carbuff]

Friday update: he's been identified: http://www.kwch.com/news/local-news/hunter-finds-human-remains-in-sedgwick-county/36757130

Friday afternoon Update: Forensics investigators have identified the bones found at 6500 N. Hillside as that of 54-year-old James Labat. The Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office said Labat was an absconder from the Kansas Department of Corrections.

Investigators are now working to determine Labat's cause of death.

Anyone who may have had contact with Labat last summer is asked to call 911 or the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office.