Skeletal remains were found in a wooded area just feet away from a busy Long Island highway, the New York State Police said
Officers responded to a call just after 7 a.m. about bones found off the Southern State Parkway in the Suffolk County town of Islip, according to state police. The remains were located in the woods near Exit 40 on the eastbound side of the highway.
Police did not state whether the bones were definitively of a human, or how the remains may have gotten there. The state police's Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Forensic Identification Unit were called to the scene.
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