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A workman made a gruesome discovery as he was cleaning a basement fire pit in a house - a human skull.
The skull was discovered Friday while Carlyn and Joycelyn Rostad were having masonry repairs done on their fireplace. The worker found the skull in the pit where fireplace ashes drop into the basement, Carlyn Rostad said.
A preliminary autopsy indicated the remains were from a white man who was at least 30 years old. Police said the bones are thought to have been at the site since before 1967.
A more complete autopsy will take at least two weeks, said Dr. Lindsey Thomas of the Minnesota Regional Coroner's Office in Hastings.
Carlyn Rostad said parts of the skull appeared to be missing, including the top of the forehead and some sections in the back and right temple.
Police officer Linda Coffield said the remains could not be linked to any cold cases.
The Rostads have used the fireplace only rarely in the 38 years they have lived in the home, and it wasn't opened up until 1977, Carlyn Rostad said. When they bought the home in 1967, the fireplace was closed off as a closet, he said.
Previous residents said the fireplace had been closed off when they lived there as well, he said.
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/state/13470374.htm
https://identifyus.org/en/cases/8772
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A workman made a gruesome discovery as he was cleaning a basement fire pit in a house - a human skull.
The skull was discovered Friday while Carlyn and Joycelyn Rostad were having masonry repairs done on their fireplace. The worker found the skull in the pit where fireplace ashes drop into the basement, Carlyn Rostad said.
A preliminary autopsy indicated the remains were from a white man who was at least 30 years old. Police said the bones are thought to have been at the site since before 1967.
A more complete autopsy will take at least two weeks, said Dr. Lindsey Thomas of the Minnesota Regional Coroner's Office in Hastings.
Carlyn Rostad said parts of the skull appeared to be missing, including the top of the forehead and some sections in the back and right temple.
Police officer Linda Coffield said the remains could not be linked to any cold cases.
The Rostads have used the fireplace only rarely in the 38 years they have lived in the home, and it wasn't opened up until 1977, Carlyn Rostad said. When they bought the home in 1967, the fireplace was closed off as a closet, he said.
Previous residents said the fireplace had been closed off when they lived there as well, he said.
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/state/13470374.htm
