Orange police are sending a human skull and lower jaw bone to a specialized forensic lab in Dallas to get more information on the bones found Saturday morning off Interstate 10.
Detective Captain Robert Enmon said the testing should determine the sex, age and any other identifiable information. “It appears to have been out in the woods for some time,” he said about the skull.
A man working a bulldozer in the woods near a long-abandoned and shuttered business saw the skull on top of the ground, Enmon said. The skull was reported to Orange police about 11 a.m. Saturday.
The site was in the 3800 block of Lutcher Drive, the access road on eastbound Interstate 10, between Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Adams Bayou.
Enmon said police found evidence of a possible campsite, which could indicate a transient along the highway. Or, he said, “it could have washed up” during the Tropical Storm Harvey flood. “There’s so many unanswered questions.”
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