Clears up the confusion, IMO:
JEFF NEAL and TAYLOR SIX
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“Pulaski County Sheriff Greg Speck confirmed on Wednesday that skeletal remains were discovered in the Garland Bend area Tuesday night.
But the Pulaski investigation had nothing to do with a Wayne County search on Wednesday involving the disappearance of a Richmond woman.
A Lexington media outlet linked the two investigations on Wednesday, but that report was inaccurate.
‘It was a total coincidence,’ said Speck. ‘We were not in Wayne County.’
Lt. Bobby Jones and Lt. Daryl Kegley responded to a call on Tuesday evening that several people had come across what they thought were human remains in a wooded area off South U.S. 27, about 3 miles from the McCreary County line. The caller said they were hunting dry land fish (mushrooms) when they discovered the remains.
When Jones and Kegley determined the remains were human, the Pulaski County Coroner’s Office was then summoned to the scene as well as other members of the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office’s Criminal Investigation Division.
‘I went with detectives down there and we confirmed human skeletal remains had indeed been discovered,’ Speck said. ‘We also found some items of clothing that could indicate the remains might be that of a female.’
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‘We don't have a missing person from Pulaski that might fit this time frame,’ Speck said. ‘When we called Wayne County, they didn't either — but they informed me that
Richmond Police were executing a search warrant near Conley Bottom regarding a missing person.’
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Ella Jackson's body, however, has not been located.
Law enforcement officials from Wayne and Madison counties were searching property belonging to the Jacksons on Wednesday. Neighbors referred to the property as a ‘vacation home’ on Ray's Lane near Conley Bottom.
While Speck said there is no immediate indication the skeletal remains discovered in Pulaski County are that of Ella Jackson, the possibility cannot be ruled out, either.
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‘It is confusing,’ [assistant chief of police with the Richmond Police Department, Rodney] Richardson said. ‘...Could those remains belong to Mrs. Jackson? Yes, they could, but we won't know until additional testing confirms that. The remains they found could also turn out to not be her ... ‘
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Human skeletal remains located in southern Pulaski
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