More human remains found at National Grid site, authorities say
More human remains — thought to belong to the same woman whose bones, clothes and boots were found earlier this month — were discovered at a National Grid dump site in Everett yesterday, authorities said.
The industrial area where the remains were discovered is a multi-acre dump site where National Grid brings fill dirt from job sites, authorities said.
“We do believe this to be a suspicious death based both on the location and some of the circumstances of the find,” Middlesex District Attorney Marian T. Ryan said. “It’s important to note, as you can see, this is a working lot. We know from the forensic anthropologist, the remains we found initially were between 1 and 5 years old, based on their exposure to the elements.”
Workers uncovered the clothed, but badly decomposed remains of a woman July 7 in what Ryan called a “shallow grave.”
Then yesterday, excavation machinery unearthed more bones believed to belong to the same woman.
“To be clear, we believe at this point to have one body here,” Ryan said. “We do know, with respect to these remains that were found, the forensic anthropologist has examined those and they appear to be a female between the age of 26 and 52, ancestry undetermined, but most likely white, estimated between (5 feet 1 inch and 5 feet 9 inches) in height.”
Ryan said the woman was clothed in a white, longsleeve T-shirt, black “Coco Vintage” fleece pants and Sporto ankle boots, in the Daria style, size 10. Ryan said the woman had a nose job at some point in the past, and her lower left leg was broken and had been repaired with a medical plate.
“We’re hoping that information will now narrow down the search for someone who is looking for an individual friend or family member,” Ryan said, “to help us make that identification.”