Ruled out CA - Newberry Springs - Human Skull, Aug 2011 - Ancient Native American

Human skull found in the Mojave Desert

Two persons searching the Mojave Desert for arrowheads found a human skull ... in a desert wash near Newberry and Stem Roads, about two miles south of Interstate 15 and directly north of Newberry Springs along Interstate 40.

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Read More:
http://www.pe.com/localnews/sbcounty/stories/webskull.11740b965.html


Another Article:

Detectives investigating the discovery of human remains found in a desert wash in Newberry Springs Sunday afternoon are calling the death suspicious.

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[Det. William] Doemner said the death is considered suspicious because of how the remains were found.

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http://www.desertdispatch.com/news/springs-11496-newberry-skull.html

This is the area where April Beth Pitzer was last seen.


http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/p/pitzer_april.html

LE has believed that she was dropped in one of the hundreds of abandoned mine shafts in the area. But maybe she wasn't.

CarlK90245 said:

This is the area where April Beth Pitzer was last seen.

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/p/pitzer_april.html

LE has believed that she was dropped in one of the hundreds of abandoned mine shafts in the area. But maybe she wasn't.

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That's interesting; I thought about April Beth Pitzer, too, since that is the area where she went missing. Any news about the gender or how long the skull was there?

Skeletal remains found in a wash in Newberry Springs are ancient American Indian bones, according to officials.

Barstow Sheriff’s deputies responded to a wash area near Newberry Road and Stem Road in Newberry Springs on August 28 after two people looking for arrowheads in the area found a human skull, according to a sheriff’s report.

more at link:

http://www.desertdispatch.com/news/newberry-11540-springs-american.html