Description

Elk hunters came across the skull only in the Carson National Forrest. No clothing/ID/belongings. Received gunshot wound of head. According to State Police Off. B. Martinez, two elk hunters walked into Dist. 7 office with a human skull. Tim Mathews reported finding the skull at approx 1200 on 9/5/1994 while hunting in the Carson National Forest, approx 20 miles northwest of Tres Piedras, NM. The skull was found 1 mile southwest of FR #87, near Dry Lake. Mathews stated that no other bones were readily visible in the immediate area. No articles of clothing were found. Other bones were found within 1/4 mile of the site by Off. Martinez on 9/196 and 9/7.