NJ NJ - Brick Twp, Old Toms River Rd, UnkRace/Sex 18-99, UP14935, skull, Mar'16

By my non-professional eye, that looks to be an Asian Male skull.
 
That skull looks fairly old to me. With all of those houses there, you'd think someone would have smelled the decomposition if it was recent.
 
It's surprising how often decomposition either isn't noticed or is attributed to a dead deer or something.

I agree, Carl, it looks male and I'll be astonished if it's not Asian. But I'm even more of an amateur than you. It also looks to me like on the skull's left, our right in that picture, there's a long narrow break running from cheekbone to above the ear that looks like it could have been made by something like a poker or golf club shaft.
 
Strange that out of the blue someone was able to see a skull on the ground while in a moving vehicle.
 
Yeah, and they were looking for him down here in Allaire state park last month, too.
 
Yeah, if he was looking for a high place in the woods, allaire isn't a real candidate. Unless he went by allaire airport. It's more likely he would have gone to the Atlantic highlands or sandy hook, imo.
 
The Courier-Post article (http://www.courierpostonline.com/st.../23/possible-human-head-found-brick/82158088/) mentions a
case last year (April 2015, I think) where a fragment of a skull was found washed up on the beach at Island Beach State Park, which appears to be about 40 minutes south of Brick on the barrier island. (They did get DNA from the fragment: https://identifyus.org/en/cases/13728. It's not Julia Madsen. Excellent article with lots of information about DNA processing and procedures.)

The picture (attachment) shows the skull they just found with a piece of bone beside it; I don't know whether that's the piece mentioned in the other article or if it's a piece of the recent find.

There's another bone fragment from Ocean County last November. Looks like it's been submitted for DNA that isn't back yet: https://identifyus.org/en/cases/14694

Map with the location of the three bone fragments; I put in a route though if the fragments are all from the same person, I'd imagine they all washed in from the same spot. https://goo.gl/maps/xJYYSD9zCan

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The Courier-Post article (http://www.courierpostonline.com/st.../23/possible-human-head-found-brick/82158088/) mentions a
case last year (April 2015, I think) where a fragment of a skull was found washed up on the beach at Island Beach State Park, which appears to be about 40 minutes south of Brick on the barrier island. (They did get DNA from the fragment: https://identifyus.org/en/cases/13728. It's not Julia Madsen. Excellent article with lots of information about DNA processing and procedures.)

The picture (attachment) shows the skull they just found with a piece of bone beside it; I don't know whether that's the piece mentioned in the other article or if it's a piece of the recent find.

There's another bone fragment from Ocean County last November. Looks like it's been submitted for DNA that isn't back yet: https://identifyus.org/en/cases/14694

Map with the location of the three bone fragments; I put in a route though if the fragments are all from the same person, I'd imagine they all washed in from the same spot. https://goo.gl/maps/xJYYSD9zCan

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It could have possibly washed in with Hurricane Sandy. A lot of Brick twp. was flooded, but I don't know if that specific area was.
 
I thought about that KaylaraOwl but that storm was more than 3 years ago. You'd think someone would have found it sooner especially since a passenger in a moving vehicle was able to see it.
 
I wonder if the large amounts of rain had cause erosion.
 

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