Aug 31, 2021

Sheriff: No ID on piece of skull found along Dry Creek

Posted Aug 31, 2021 3:31 PM
<b>The area of Dry Creek north of W. Magnolia Road where the piece of skull was found. </b>Image courtesy Google Maps
The area of Dry Creek north of W. Magnolia Road where the piece of skull was found. Image courtesy Google Maps

By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post

Mystery continues to surround a piece of human skull found by mushroom hunters along Dry Creek on April 20.

Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan said this morning that while the KBI lab was able to collect a partial DNA profile from the piece of skull, the partial profile was of insufficient quality for comparison testing.

Deputies were sent to Dry Creek north of W. Magnolia Road at 5:23 p.m. April 20 after two men hunting for mushrooms on the east side of the tree line along the creek bed reported finding a human skull. What they found was the top part of a human skull that appeared to have been there for quite some time, Soldan said on April 22.