Police may search Barr Lake for human bones
By Bill Scanlon, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Originally published 07:34 a.m., July 24, 2008
Updated 07:49 a.m., July 24, 2008
The mystery man whose bones were found in the Burlington Canal in Commerce City may be all over the place.
Police are to decide this morning whether it might be worth their while to expand their search to Barr Lake, which is in Adams County northeast of Denver. Crews earlier had dredged sand out of the canal and dumped it at Barr Lake, and it's possible some of the man's bones went with the sand, Detective Mike Saunders of the Commerce Police said this morning.
"The problem is, some of that sand may have been taken to some place else," he said.
"We're going to discuss the possibility" of searching at Barr Lake today, he added.
A fisherman found a human leg bone on Sunday and alerted police.
Since then, four more bones have been recovered from the canal that is near York Street and 58th Avenue.
Police don’t know the identity of the man whose bones are scattered, and Saunders deemed it "a long shot" that the body might have belonged to the victim of a homicide, say, one of the people who disappeared after last being seen by suspected kidnapper Scott Kimball.
"It's something we could look at down the road" if a good DNA sample can be lifted from the bones, he said.
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July 24, 2008
10:41 a.m.
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DahmersCookbook writes:
Gene, Just because I purchase 55gal. drums of acid does not suggest i'm up to no good. As for Kimball he would make A fine
apprentice.