Human skeletal remains found at Willard Bay

Human skeletal remains were found on the northwest side of Willard Bay Saturday morning.

Human skeletal remains were found on the northwest side of Willard Bay Saturday morning. (Box Elder County Sheriff's Office via Facebook)


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OGDEN — Human skeletal remains were discovered in Willard Bay Saturday morning.

At 10:45 a.m., the Box Elder County Sheriff's Office received a report that skeletal remains were found in a remote wetland area of the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge on the northwest side of Willard Bay.

"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Box Elder County Sheriff's Office responded to the location and confirmed that the skeletal remains were human," Chief Deputy Sheriff Cade Palmer said in a Facebook post.

The Utah State Medical Examiner's Office and Weber Metro CSI have processed the area and collected evidence. The skeletal remains were sent to the Utah State Medical Examiner's Office for processing and to determine the identity.

The sheriff's office said no other information is available at this time.

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Sicily Stanton is a web producer on the news team at KSL.com.
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