Investigators determine skull found in crab pot is human
Feb 24, 2014, 12:31 PM | Updated: 2:19 pm
Investigators have determined a skull found in a crab pot off Westport is human. (Grays Harbor County Sheriff's Department)
(Grays Harbor County Sheriff's Department)
An anthropologist has confirmed a skull found in a crab pot off the Washington coast is human, and it is now being sent to the FBI crime lab at Quantico, Va.
Grays Harbor Undersheriff Dave Pimentel tells KIRO Radio investigators hope to identify it by extracting DNA.
The skull was found Friday morning in a crab pot just over 2 miles off Westport. The fisherman told investigators the pot had been set the previous week in about 90-100 feet of water.
“Sometime in the previous week the skull went into the crab pot and we’re looking into it further. We don’t know anything more than that at this point,” Pimentel says.
The skull was sent to a lab in King County over the weekend, where it was determined it was human. Along with the DNA, investigators will be looking to see if there are any injuries sustained to the skull prior to death.
