Identified! LA - St Francisville, Human remains at ferry landing, Jul'14 - Kenneth Bennett

By Quincy Hodges, NOLA.com - The Times-Picayune
on July 07, 2014 at 9:17 AM, updated July 07, 2014 at 9:23 AM

Skeletal remains were found Sunday around 1 p.m. near the Old Ferry Landing in St. Francisville, according to the West Feliciana Parish Sheriff's Office.

A worker, who was bush-hogging the property just north of (to the right of) the landing. noticed the bones in an overgrown area near the tree line. He immediately contacted authorities.

http://www.nola.com/crime/baton-rou...ins_found_near_ol.html#incart_related_stories

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Advocate staff report July 07, 2014

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“At this time, we have no information on the race, sex, age, or ID of the body,” Foster said.

“West Feliciana does have two unsolved missing persons cases; however we have no indications that this case is in any way related,” Foster said.

http://theadvocate.com/home/9658956-125/skeletal-remains-found-near-old

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Posted: Jul 06, 2014 10:15 PM CST Updated: Jul 07, 2014 4:41 AM CST
By Graham Ulkins

Erin Foster, the public information officer for WFPSO, said the remains were found in an overgrown area off Ferdinand Street in St. Francisville, which is near the old ferry landing, around 1 p.m.

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The bones were taken to LSU’s FACES lab to be analyzed.

http://www.wafb.com/story/25951509/skeletal-remains-found-near-old-st-francisville-ferry-landing

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Published 12:04am Saturday, February 25, 2012

Shaun Thornhill, 41, was last seen alive Jan. 23 in the West Feliciana community of St. Francisville, approximately 60 miles south of where his vehicle was found later that week.

A spokesperson for the ACSO said Friday both the ACSO and WFPSO scoured the woods in the Kingston area near where Thornhill’s truck was found. Cadaver-sniffing dogs were also used during the search. The ACSO spokesperson said the renewed search was due to a newly developed lead, but declined to specify the details of the lead.

http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/2012/02/25/search-for-missing-man-resumes/

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Posted: Jan 28, 2012 6:45 PM CDT Updated: Jan 28, 2012 7:59 PM CDT
By Roslyn Anderson

Thornhill's sister Christel Wyant told WLBT Saturday that he is a pipeline worker and was last seen Sunday at a St. Francesville Louisiana motel.

http://www.wbtv.com/story/16624167/authorities-search-for-missing-louisiana-man?clienttype=printable

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Teche said:

Hannah 'Jane' Rowell Clement from Baton Rouge, La. It's a cold, cold case.

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Swan said from what he could tell, it looks like a man's body. "You could still see the clothes they had on; I saw the imprint of a wallet in his pocket," he said.

Swan said he last brush-hogged the same property about a year ago and the remains weren't there.

"(The body) had to be dumped there within that time frame," he said.

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Skeletal remains that were found in July near the Old Ferry Landing in St. Francisville, belonged to a man who has been identified as Kenneth Dwayne Bennett, 58, of Baton Rouge...

"A wallet and an ID were found near the remains; however, in order to make a positive identification, we had to wait until we got the official DNA results back before we could release a name," Sheriff J. Austin Daniel said in a news release. "Rushing to put out a name was not in the best interest of the deceased or his family members."

A vehicle identified as belonging to Bennett was found at the bottom of the ferry landing ramp submerged in the Mississippi River in early August. The water level at that time was very low and a boater noticed the submerged vehicle.

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