Identified! IN - Hancock County, Adult Skeletal Remains in Woods, McCordsville, Apr 2019 - Patricia Depasquale

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The full skeletal remains, which appear to have been in the woods for an extended period of time, have been excavated and are now under study in Indianapolis, officials said.

Officials from the Hancock County coroners office, whose job is to determine the cause of death, turned the care of the remains over to a team of forensic specialists from the University of Indianapolis Sunday afternoon.

The team, led by Dr. Krista Latham, a forensic anthropologist, could take several weeks or even months to piece the puzzle together.

“It’s going to be a painstaking process, because the answers are more than likely going to come from science now,” assistant coroner Dave Carver said.

The adult remains were found in a wooded area in the 6000 block of County Road 900N on Saturday. The work to remove them came a day after officials from the McCordsville Police Department, Hancock County Sheriff’s Department, county coroner’s office and prosecutors office were alerted to the discovery about a mile east of 86th Street and Carroll Road.

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Human remains identified as missing McCordsville woman

Patricia Depasquale, 57, McCordsville, was positively identified through dental records, said Aaron Watts, a detective with the McCordsville Police Department. Police don’t know how long her body had been in the wooded area in the 6500 block of County Road 900N when it was found by a mushroom hunter on April 27.

The cause of death is still a mystery. The condition of the remains made it difficult to determine exactly how Depasquale died, the Hancock County coroner’s office said. However, foul play is not suspected.