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| KSF120129 Jan 29 2012; Cheney Sedgdwick County | |
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| PorchlightUSA | Feb 18 2012, 06:20 PM Post #1 |
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By Megan Strader & Kim Hynes KWCH 12 Eyewitness News 2:41 p.m. CST, February 17, 2012 (SEDGWICK COUNTY, Kan.)— Sedgwick County investigators were back out searching farm land near Cheney Friday morning. But they are now done searching the area for human remains. On January 29, someone looking to buy a farmstead discovered the skull and turned it over to Cheney police. Authorities have determined it is from an African American woman between the ages of 30-50. This week, Cheney asked Sedgdwick County to take lead of the investigation. They spent Thursday and Friday morning searching a farm field near 2nd and 375th Street West. They haven't found anything else at this time. This isn't the first skull found near Cheney. Last year, another skull from an African American woman between 18-25 years old was also discovered. At that time the sheriff's department was asking for help in trying to figure out who the skull belonged to. Sheriff investigator Captain Greg Pollock says the two skulls were discovered about eight miles apart. One was found near a tree row and the other near a river bed. He says they are checking missing person reports and working with several agencies to try and identify both skulls. Right now neither skull found matches any local missing person reports. But Pollock says right now they have no reason to believe right now that the two skulls are connected. If you have any information, you're asked to call CrimeStoppers at (316) 267-2111. http://www.kwch.com/news/kwch-news-kah-sed...0,5866956.story |
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| PorchlightUSA | Feb 18 2012, 06:20 PM Post #2 |
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/17/polic...nd-near-cheney/ Police investigate after skull found near Cheney Published February 17, 2012 | CHENEY, Kan. – Investigators are trying to determine the identity of a skull found near Cheney in Sedgwick County. The Sedgwick County sheriff's office says the skull was discovered Jan. 29 by people considering buying the property. The sheriff's office announced Thursday that an anthropologist determined the skull belonged to a black woman who was 35 to 50 years old. Police say it isn't clear yet whether the woman was a crime victim. KFDI reports that human remains also were found in a rural area near Cheney last March. The skull and other body parts were found near a creek. An anthropologist determined those remains belonged to a black woman in her late teens to mid-twenties. No leads have emerged in that case. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/17/polic.../#ixzz1mmIoQyvl |
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| PorchlightUSA | Feb 18 2012, 06:20 PM Post #3 |
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http://www.kansas.com/2012/02/17/2220194/s...eney-skull.html Search prompted by Cheney skull discovery finds nothing * By Tim Potter * The Wichita Eagle * Published Friday, Feb. 17, 2012, at 4:04 p.m. * Updated Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012, at 6:39 a.m. After a woman’s partial skull was found on a Cheney farmstead, Sedgwick County sheriff’s investigators have searched for additional remains but didn’t find any, an official said Friday. A search likely won’t resume unless it is triggered by new information, said sheriff’s Capt. Greg Pollock. It’s not clear whether the woman was a homicide victim, and so far there has been no evidence that a crime occurred, Pollock said. Still, the search has been systematic, involving about 65 people who sometimes had to get down on their hands and knees to look for evidence in a tree row and a field covered with dense vegetation. The fact that the only remains is a partial skull makes it “extremely difficult” to identify the person, Pollock said. Wichita State University anthropology staff have assisted investigators, and an expert has said the skull characteristics suggest that the woman was that of an African-American, 35 to 50 years old. On Jan. 29, Cheney police went to the farmstead after potential buyers found the partial skull while walking over the grounds. The skull was partly buried in a tree row. It’s possible that an animal could have moved the skull to that spot, Pollock said. The property had gone into foreclosure and has been vacant about a year. Investigators think the skull could have ended up there within the past three years, he said. The Sheriff’s Office is asking people to recall if they saw anything around the area during that timeframe that could be relevant. Investigators have received a few phone calls, but “nothing substantial,” Pollock said. Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff’s investigation unit, 316-660-5300, from 8:30 a.m. 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Anonymous tips can be made to Crime Stoppers, 316-267-2111, or to Crime Stoppers by text message by calling crimes (264637) and entering tip217, followed by the message, or by going to the Crime Stoppers website at www.wichitasedgwickcountycrimestoppers.com. Investigators got permission to search the house and other buildings on the property but found nothing of significance, Pollock said. Last April, a partial skull, possibly an African-American female, age 16 to 23, was found about 8 miles south of Cheney, along a creek. But there doesn’t appear to be a link between the two sites, Pollock said. Because of the possible age involved with that partial skull, investigators have been checking run-away reports, Pollock said. In that case and the latest, sheriff’s investigators are sharing their information with other law enforcement agencies through a national computer network. Reach Tim Potter at 316-268-6684 or tpotter@wichitaeagle.com. Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2012/02/17/2220194/s...l#storylink=cpy |
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| PorchlightUSA | Feb 18 2012, 06:21 PM Post #4 |
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http://www.kansascw.com/kscw/news/kwch-new...0,3539458.story Investigators wrap up search near Cheney where skull was found By Megan Strader & Kim Hynes KWCH 12 Eyewitness News 2:41 p.m. CST, February 17, 2012 (SEDGWICK COUNTY, Kan.)— Sedgwick County investigators were back out searching farm land near Cheney Friday morning. But they are now done searching the area for human remains. On January 29, someone looking to buy a farmstead discovered the skull and turned it over to Cheney police. Authorities have determined it is from an African American woman between the ages of 30-50. This week, Cheney asked Sedgdwick County to take lead of the investigation. They spent Thursday and Friday morning searching a farm field near 2nd and 375th Street West. They haven't found anything else at this time. This isn't the first skull found near Cheney. Last year, another skull from an African American woman between 18-25 years old was also discovered. At that time the sheriff's department was asking for help in trying to figure out who the skull belonged to. Sheriff investigator Captain Greg Pollock says the two skulls were discovered about eight miles apart. One was found near a tree row and the other near a river bed. He says they are checking missing person reports and working with several agencies to try and identify both skulls. Right now neither skull found matches any local missing person reports. But Pollock says right now they have no reason to believe right now that the two skulls are connected. If you have any information, you're asked to call CrimeStoppers at (316) 267-2111. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Feb 18 2012, 06:21 PM Post #5 |
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Detectives investigate skull found near Cheney * By Hurst Laviana * The Wichita Eagle * Published Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012, at 7:27 p.m. Sedgwick County sheriff’s investigators said today they are trying to identify a human skull that was found last month near Cheney. An anthropologist has concluded that the skull came from a black woman between the ages of 35 and 50, investigators said. Cheney police contacted the Sheriff’s Office this week and asked for help in identifying the skull, which was found Jan. 29 at the east edge of Cheney by some potential property buyers. Anyone with information about the skull is being asked to contact a sheriff’s detective at 316-660-5300 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Anonymous tips can be made to Crime Stoppers at 316-267-2111. Reach Hurst Laviana at 316-268-6499 or hlaviana@wichitaeagle.com. Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2012/02/16/2219135/d...l#storylink=cpy http://www.kansas.com/2012/02/16/2219135/d...kull-found.html |
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| PorchlightUSA | Feb 18 2012, 06:21 PM Post #6 |
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| Begood | Mar 6 2013, 07:09 PM Post #7 |
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Remains found near Cheney first thought to be WWII souvenir Skull found near Cheney probably an early resident of Kansas 2-22-12 The tale began on Halloween night in 1949. A skull was left on the doorstep of a Circleville family in Jackson County, Kansas. The family didn’t know what to do with it and had no knowledge of its history or background. So they kept it. For decades. The family then moved the skull with them to Cheney. And there, the skull was buried near a tree row on a farmstead – where it was found last month. A former resident of the property told authorities the skull had been in the family’s possession since it was left on his parents’ doorstep in Circleville, Sedgwick County investigators said Wednesday. The family had made attempts through the years to have the skull identified. In the 1970s, the family asked a museum official to help identify it and was told the skull was most likely a World War II souvenir, according to a news release issued by sheriff’s Capt. Greg Pollock. Sedgwick County investigators will be transferring the case to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, Pollock said.The family could not be reached for comment. Jackson County’s chief detective Al Dunn said he’s still trying to verify the story. “I’ve contacted the oldest living member of the sheriff’s office who started working here in 1953 and he’s lived here his entire life and doesn’t recall any unsolved homicides or murders that would fit the circumstances of the skull being found.” Chances are, Dunn said, it could be the skull of a person who may have been an early resident of Jackson County and whose grave may have been disturbed through the years. “It’s not uncommon to find bones or human remains in the area,” he said. “We have a large creek that runs through Jackson County and six years ago, a skull cap was found embedded in the creek bed and found by some guys out trapping. They called us and it turned out to be Native American that lived over a thousand years ago. Problem is that in the early days when somebody passed away, the family often picked a spot that had special meaning to them and just buried them there. Over the years, people have forgotten where the gravesites are.” Captain Pollock said sheriff’s investigators asked an anthropologist to determine the race and sex of the human skull. Last week, the anthropologist concluded that the skull came from a black woman between the ages of 35 and 50. On Wednesday, Pollock said he still believed the skull was of African American origin and not what the family was told by a museum specialist in the 1970s that it was of Asian descent and brought to America as a World War II souvenir. “You look at the science from back in the ’70s and now,” Pollock said. The skull was found Jan. 29 when Cheney police were called to the farmstead after potential buyers found the partial skull while walking over the grounds. The skull was partly buried in a tree row. Is it possible the skull could be from an African-American who lived in Jackson County perhaps in the days of territorial Kansas or later? Yes, says Anna Wilhelm, a volunteer with the Jackson County Historical Society. In the territorial days of Kansas – 1854 to 1861 – Jackson County was largely an abolitionist stronghold. It was linked to the Underground Railroad leading slaves to freedom. It was also along the route where John Brown stole 11 slaves in Missouri just before Christmas 1858 and brought them across the Kansas border to freedom.. “It is such an early time with no records,” Wilhelm said. What is known is that there was an African-American presence in Jackson County – and more specifically in Circleville. Wilhelm, a native of Circleville, said most early settlers were buried in a cemetery three miles southwest of Circleville. The most prominent black families of the late 19th century were named Jolly and Plum. “Those families are no longer around,” she said. http://www.kansas.com/2012/02/22/2225756/s...y-possibly.html |
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