Identified! RI - Bones found off of I-95 Pawtucket, RI, 19 Feb 2020 - Felix Colon

[MaeKingBiscuits]

Police: Bones found off I-95 in Pawtucket are human

Bones found Wednesday afternoon in a wooded area off I-95 in Pawtucket are, in fact, human remains, Rhode Island State Police confirmed Thursday.

The "wooded area" is really not that wooded. Very thin strip of trees. This is local to me and we are all wondering how remains could go undiscovered that long in this area, and if a local cold case will be unraveled soon.

 

[Yemelyan]

I will be watching this with interest.

 

[Reasonable & Just]

Police: Bones found off I-95 in Pawtucket are human

Bones found Wednesday afternoon in a wooded area off I-95 in Pawtucket are, in fact, human remains, Rhode Island State Police confirmed Thursday.

The "wooded area" is really not that wooded. Very thin strip of trees. This is local to me and we are all wondering how remains could go undiscovered that long in this area, and if a local cold case will be unraveled soon.

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Welcome to Websleuths, @MaeKingBiscuits! Is there a particular case you are thinking of? Anyway, I hope someone gets answers to a loved one's disappearance soon.

 

[madamx]

PAWTUCKET — Bones discovered Wednesday afternoon in woods off Route 95 in Pawtucket are human, the state Medical Examiners Office confirmed Thursday, according to Rhode Island State Police Maj. Timothy Sanzi.

Now the police have to try to identify the remains.

Sanzi, detective commander, would not say whether they are from an adult, child, man or woman.



https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.providencejournal.com/news/20200220/police-confirm-bones-found-off-route-95-in-pawtucket-are-human%3ftemplate=ampart

 

[modesty blaise]

Please keep us updated

 

[MaeKingBiscuits]

Welcome to Websleuths, @MaeKingBiscuits! Is there a particular case you are thinking of? Anyway, I hope someone gets answers to a loved one's disappearance soon.

Not a clue! For a small state, we have a lot of missing persons. I'm not sure if I am allowed to share, but the cleanup crew who found the body said it was a woman based on a pair of shoes they saw, but that is unsubstantiated.

 

[PayrollNerd]

ABC6 News. Commenters mention family members that are missing.

ABC6 News

Rhode Island State Police say the bones found in the area near exit 26 were confirmed to be human bones, according to the State Medical Examiners office.

 

[MaeKingBiscuits]

ABC6 News. Commenters mention family members that are missing.

ABC6 News

Rhode Island State Police say the bones found in the area near exit 26 were confirmed to be human bones, according to the State Medical Examiners office.

So sad Since the remains are described as "bones" I think the person will have been missing for minimum of 8 years. They wouldn't be a match for recent missing persons.

 

[PayrollNerd]

So sad Since the remains are described as "bones" I think the person will have been missing for minimum of 8 years. They wouldn't be a match for recent missing persons.

Not necessarily. It depends on the location of the remains. I’d say its long past the putrification stage and all tissue may be gone. However, hair may remain in the area if the remains haven’t been disturbed. Like you mentioned above, this isn’t a heavily wooded area. It is possible this is not the original location of death.

 

[CCJD]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...487868373441&usg=AOvVaw0xqwt73vZbfJLvZ2yazgtR

 

[madamx]

Not a clue! For a small state, we have a lot of missing persons. I'm not sure if I am allowed to share, but the cleanup crew who found the body said it was a woman based on a pair of shoes they saw, but that is unsubstantiated.

Oh that is interesting.
I wonder what kind of shoes they were and how old they looked.

 

[Momma4]

I am following this now. Good point about this may not be where the body was originally. Which means someone moved it. I hope this finding will give some one closure. I hope law enforcement let's lets us know soon who it was. So sad

 

[StrangeOne]

Police: Bones found off I-95 in Pawtucket are human

Bones found Wednesday afternoon in a wooded area off I-95 in Pawtucket are, in fact, human remains, Rhode Island State Police confirmed Thursday.

The "wooded area" is really not that wooded. Very thin strip of trees. This is local to me and we are all wondering how remains could go undiscovered that long in this area, and if a local cold case will be unraveled soon.

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Does it get a lot of foot traffic or anything like that?

 

[MaeKingBiscuits]

Does it get a lot of foot traffic or anything like that?

I'm sure there is some occasional foot traffic. There are businesses and houses right in the back. In that grassy area probably more likely some panhandling. I snipped this image off of Google maps to give you guys a better perspective of how they're describing this "wooded" area. Wooded for city I guess.

 

[Momma4]

That is nuts!!!!! Not wooded really at all!!! Wouldn't a body smell? How could the buisness not smell it? Wow! Crazy. Are there any updates ?

 

[Mountain_Kat]

Watching these developments. I always check New England because of my interest in Rachel Garden.
Rachael Elizabeth Garden – The Charley Project

 

[madamx]

I'm sure there is some occasional foot traffic. There are businesses and houses right in the back. In that grassy area probably more likely some panhandling. I snipped this image off of Google maps to give you guys a better perspective of how they're describing this "wooded" area. Wooded for city I guess.

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Oh wow thank you for the snap shot.
So do you Happen know exactly where they found the remains? I notice a dead end street and a parking lot from a business on one end . Then a cul de sac with homes and the heating oil place Then on the other end.
There are homes on there which look like their backyards go to the woods.
I also too find it odd nobody smelled the body at any point, especially since we have not had such a super cold snowing winter.

 

[MaeKingBiscuits]

Oh wow thank you for the snap shot.
So do you Happen know exactly where they found the remains? I notice a dead end street and a parking lot from a business on one end . Then a cul de sac with homes and the heating oil place Then on the other end.
There are homes on there which look like their backyards go to the woods.
I also too find it odd nobody smelled the body at any point, especially since we have not had such a super cold snowing winter.

No, I am not sure, other than it was somewhere within the trees. I also heard that they were in a "ditch" type area that made the remains hard to see unless you were "right on top of them", but that is not from an official source.

The whole area is now in panic mode because of a local outbreak with the coronavirus within the schools, so I won't be surprised if updates are slow.

 

[Timb401]

Does it get a lot of foot traffic or anything like that?

I used to live a few streets over. There is nothing really in that location. A few mill buildings. But that exact location there is a small stream on one side and the highway on the other side. So the only way to get there is to go across the stream, or from the highway.

 

[Timb401]

Watching these developments. I always check New England because of my interest in Rachel Garden.
Rachael Elizabeth Garden – The Charley Project

I donr think that is the exact location. I think it was found a little before exit 26. There is a bigger wooded area just before. Even based off news video, it looked like just before that