A Department of Corrections crew was cleaning an area next to Interstate 5 when someone stumbled upon a 'suspicious object' – a small backpack with a human skull inside.
after a skull was discovered.
Oregon State Police said on Wednesday that a Department of Corrections crew was working on cleaning an area next to Interstate 5 on Monday when someone stumbled upon a"suspicious object" – a small backpack with a human skull inside. The backpack was discovered near milepost 260 next to the northbound side of the interstate. Police have since taken the skull to the Oregon State Medical Examiner's office to try and make an identification.
It took more than a year for the deceased person to be identified, but in December 2019, authorities said that DNA testing had shown the skull was the remains of Scott Evenson. He was an Oregon man who had been listed as a missing person on Facebook in 2016, but whose disappearance was never reported to the police, the outlet said.
Evenson, who had lived in Myrtle Creek nearly 200 miles south of Portland, was around 44 at the time of his death.
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