
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, December 10, 1993                   TAG: 9312100182
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: FAIRFAX                                LENGTH: Short

SCIENTISTS, POLICE TRY TO IDENTIFY BONES

Fairfax County police and a Smithsonian Institution scientist determined that bones found at a construction site belonged to a woman who may have been dead as long as five years.

Homicide investigators have classified the death as suspicious and are trying to match information on the unidentified body to missing-person reports.

"We don't know the cause of death or even that it happened in our jurisdiction," Fairfax police spokeswoman Lt. April Kranda said.

The woman was between 28 and 39 years old with brown hair and a small to medium build, Kranda said. She was apparently wearing winter clothes.

Kranda said surveyors stumbled across the woman's skull and other bones while working at a Centreville building site on Monday.

Douglas W. Owsley, a curator and forensic anthropologist at the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History, excavated the site on Tuesday.

- Associated Press

Keywords:
FATALITY

by CNB