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[PrayersForMaura]

Human remains found in Gaston woods

News 14 Carolina found out that the owner of a piece of property near the road was trying to sell it, so he had a land surveyor come out and survey the area this week. The surveyor found nothing unusual over the past few days, but around 8 a.m. Friday he made a gruesome discovery. He told neighbors he saw a badly decomposed body.

More: http://www.news14charlotte.com/content/local_news/?AC=&ArID=110007&SecID=2

[aussiegran]

Sounds like whoever it was has been there a long time ,I hope they get an ID and its not another unidentified case.:(

[Montanagirl]

Sounds like more than one body. Whose missing in the area? Aren't there several missing woman in that part of the state?

[docwho3]

Sounds like whoever it was has been there a long time ,I hope they get an ID and its not another unidentified case.:(I watched the news video and I am unclear about how long the remains were there. It could have been that they were there the whole time or it almost sounded like the remains were not there one day and then were there the next day, as if they had been stored somewhere and then dumped out.

[Beyond Belief]

"legs all over the place", I wonder what we have here.

[bakerprune64]

"legs all over the place", I wonder what we have here.
...According to neighbors, there were body parts found all around.

“(The surveyor) come by here and told us; he said that there was legs lying everywhere, that . . . just nasty, nasty,” said neighbor Austin Walker.

Ewwww that is so gross, this place wasn't a body farm was it?

[concernedperson]

"legs all over the place", I wonder what we have here.

Does that mean pieces of two legs or more than two legs? If it is more than two legs it sounds like the Green River type killings where he used a particular area to dump the bodies.

[PrayersForMaura]

The story appears to have just been updated a bit ago.

The remains have been badly burned. They can't determine as of yet if they belong to a man, woman, child or if it's even more than one person :(

[concernedperson]

Another scary situation. People need to spend more of their incomes on self protection...living in gated communities, alarm systems, deadbolts, etc. Even if you think some of it is more than you need. Criminals will go the path of least resistence. Don't leave your doors unlocked or your cars. Even if you think it is just for a minute. These minutes are what we are seeing over and over. I lock my car to go to the community mailbox. I am 25 feet away but still, if my purse got stolen? Not even counting a perv hiding in the backseat.

It isn't about paranoia as much as so many seize opportunities to make your life hell.

[Boatswain'sMate]

There's a picture of the area around Lowell-Spencer Rd. on this website to give you an idea. (Scroll down past the very sad announcement.)
http://www.bikepasa.com/

[Bobbisangel]

That is really creepy. I wonder how many people are missing in that area. Sounds like the man who came upon the scene was pretty shook up. Must have been pretty bad. I hope they can ID the victim or victims.

[Beyond Belief]

Posted on Sat, Dec. 31, 2005

Body found at side of road

Surveyor discovered charred remains at Gaston County turnout

CLEVE R. WOOTSON JR.

cwootson@charlotteobserver.com (cwootson@charlotteobserver.com)

SPENCER MOUNTAIN - A land surveyor discovered a body, apparently charred, on winding Lowell-Spencer Mountain Road early Friday.

The body was found in a turnout on the two-lane road in front of wooded property owned by Edwin Elliott, who is getting the land surveyed before he sells it.

Surveyors had been on the almost 5-acre vacant parcel for a couple of days. But neither they nor loggers who parked their truck in the turnout in front of his parcel saw anything Thursday night, "so we know the body wasn't there then," Elliott said.

Elliott, who sells antiques and gives music lessons across the street from the where the body was found, said the surveyor told him "the body was burned and apparently a leg was detached. It looked like someone tried to tape it all back together. ... (Police have) been in the woods all day pulling things out."

Elliott said he had seen no unusual activity in the past few days. People often pull into the turnout to use their cell phones, Elliott said. Sometimes, people dump dead dogs there.

Gaston County Police Sgt. Steve Myers said officers don't know much yet, including the victim's gender. They got a call at 8:56 Friday morning about skeletal remains.

Myers wouldn't comment on Elliott's reports that the body had been burned and one of its legs detached . He said police would have more information after an autopsy is done in Chapel Hill.

Police are investigating the case as a homicide -- the 11th reported in Gaston County this year and the fourth investigated by county police, who operate in areas of the county without their own police force.

Anyone with information should call Gaston County Police, (704) 861-8000.



http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/states/north_carolina/counties/gaston/13521758.htm