GREEN BROOK, N.J. — Investigators have yet to identify the human skeletal remains found Sunday evening in Green Brook, but the remains are thought to be those of a man, Somerset County Prosecutor Geoffrey Soriano said today.
Soriano said in a release today that a forensic anthropologist with the New Jersey Medical Examiner’s Office would try to determine the height and approximate age, as well as the length of time they were at the site.
Two hunters who had been tracking a wounded doe near Warrenville Road discovered the remains around 6 p.m. Sunday.
The remains were found up a steep hill alongside the two-lane roadway. To get to the area where the bones were found, investigators had to lay an extension ladder on the ground to climb the hill. “Its in an unusual location,” Soriano said.
In the meantime, Green Brook and Somerset County detectives are working with the New Jersey Police Missing Persons Unit to check on all reports of men who have been reported missing.
The Prosecutor’s Office gave no indication how long it would be before additional information would be available. Green Brook Police Chief Martin Rasmussen also said police no longer were on the scene.
The forensic investigator continues to examine the remains to ascertain the height, approximate age and how long the man’s remains were at the site where they were discovered, Soriano said. They also do not have an official cause of death at this moment.
With the report of the remains being found to be male, this eliminates the possibility of them being those of Margaret Haddican, a Warren mother of three who disappeared in October 2006. That case is still unsolved.
Carla Cuccaro, whose house is across the street and down a steep hill from the investigation scene, said she is used to accidents on the sloping road, but hearing about the bones was “absolutely surprising.
“It’s a little creepy, but what are you going to do?” she said.
The Township of Green Brook is located in central New Jersey, with a total land area of 4.6 square miles. It is bordered on the north by Warren Township, and Watchung Borough; on the east by Watchung and North Plainfield; on the south by Dunellen and Middlesex; and on the west by Bridgewater Township.
Green Brook is most notably known to be the home of Washington Rock State Park, which commemorates the spot where George Washington and Marquis De Lafayette watched the movement of the British soldiers during the Revolutionary war.
The park is just down the street from where the remains were found.
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Hunters Find Human Remains in Green Brook