Human remains unearthed in Proctor

Farmer makes bizarre find in field, FBI investigating

By JOHN RECH

news@theeveningtimes.com

A Proctor farmer tilled up part of a human jaw. The county sheriff department took pictures of it and a dentist confirmed the remains were human. Forensics anthropologists viewing the same photos judged the remains were more than a century old. State police and FBI brought in experts to exhume the body. “It might be as old as the Civil War,” said County Sheriff Mike Allen.

As a farmer cleared a new vegetable was cleared the upper jaw turned up in the soil at the Daughetee farm at 3855 Proctor Road. The property set south of Edmonson and west of Highway 147. The county Sheriff Department secured the scene a Monday and took pictures.

“We don’t know if was part of an old burial ground or cemetery,” said Allen. “He reported finding what looked like human remains.”

The sheriff’s dentist son got the first look at the photos and identified them as human remains.

Our investigators secured the scene Monday night and contacted state police,” said Allen. “They contacted the FBI out of Little Rock with a special team they’ve got from around the area and came in Tuesday morning. The team took more pictures and sent them too archeologists.”

Early investigation opinion from the photographic evidence placed the remains at more than one hundred years old. The team was set to begin exhume the body.

“There will actually be another agency that comes out to make sure everything is done right,” said Allen.

The sheriff provided some early thinking in the investigation and provided a heads up for anyone noticing the police activity in the area.

‘We don’t think it’s anything fresh,” said Allen. “It’s some old human remains. It maybe one hundred years or more they may have had a burial ground there that’s now been grown over and now disturbed.”

FBI searchers comb the ground after human remains were found in a field in Proctor.

Photo courtesy of CCSO