(KTLA-TV) |
PALMDALE -- Sheriff's investigators say they have found a male torso not far from where a severed hand was discovered in the high desert.
Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore says the additional human remains were found in thick brush near the intersection of 170th St. E and E Avenue M8 in Lake Los Angeles.
The Sheriff's Headquarters Bureau described the additional human remains only as "skeletal."
Deputies and cadaver dogs searched the area thoroughly Tuesday night but found no other body parts at that time.
Wednesday afternoon, investigators say that several middle school students on their way home from school found more body parts, not far from where the hand was discovered.
Detectives are not saying if the body parts belong to the same person.
They say that the coroner will have to determine that at some point.
"My boys were leaving the Wilsona Achievement Academy, and I got a call that I needed to come down because they found something that looked like body parts," says Janice Stowers, the school's principal.
Whitmore said detectives have no reason to believe the severed hand had anything to do with the school, and that students and their parents should not worry.
Homicide and coroner's investigators are checking missing persons reports, among other things, to identify the person.
Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore says the additional human remains were found in thick brush near the intersection of 170th St. E and E Avenue M8 in Lake Los Angeles.
The Sheriff's Headquarters Bureau described the additional human remains only as "skeletal."
Deputies and cadaver dogs searched the area thoroughly Tuesday night but found no other body parts at that time.
Wednesday afternoon, investigators say that several middle school students on their way home from school found more body parts, not far from where the hand was discovered.
Detectives are not saying if the body parts belong to the same person.
They say that the coroner will have to determine that at some point.
"My boys were leaving the Wilsona Achievement Academy, and I got a call that I needed to come down because they found something that looked like body parts," says Janice Stowers, the school's principal.
Whitmore said detectives have no reason to believe the severed hand had anything to do with the school, and that students and their parents should not worry.
Homicide and coroner's investigators are checking missing persons reports, among other things, to identify the person.
