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

DATE: SUNDAY, April 23, 1995                   TAG: 9504240051
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACH                                 LENGTH: Short

REMAINS ARE THOSE OF WOMAN

A forensic anthropologist with the Smithsonian Institution has concluded that a skeleton found last week near a golf course was that of a woman in her mid-20s to mid-30s.

Anthropologist Douglas Ubelaker said Friday that he also believes that the remains, found Tuesday by a man fishing in a lake adjacent to the Owl's Creek Golf Center, had been there three to six years, said Lewis Thurston, a police spokesman.

An investigation found evidence of decayed clothing near the remains, but Thurston said it would take further examination of the skeleton by Ubelaker and a medical examiner to determine any identity.

The remains were found in about the same area where the bodies of two young women - 21-year-old Karen Wheeler and 17-year-old Joan E. Shoppaul - were found in late 1990 and early 1991. Neither of those slayings has been solved.

- Associated Press

Keywords:
FATALITY

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