From ABC 7 News:
Search Continues for More Bones Near Canal
Location: Washington
Posted: February 07, 2005 8:22 PM EST
URL: http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0205/205523.html

Washington (AP) - Police spent Monday scouring an area near the C&O Canal in Northwest Washington, one day after a passerby found human remains there.

"It's just a lot of debris - a lot of rocks, a lot of sticks. It's hard to get through," said dog handler Chris Hardy of Bay Area Recovery Canines, a Maryland group which provides dogs trained to detect human remains.

"At this point, no cause of death or anything like that has been established, or even the sex, race and age" of the dead person, said Cmdr. Robert Contee of the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department. The city's medical examiner was working on those matters.

The remains were discovered by a jogger on Sunday, just days after bones turned up nearby, in the area around Fletchers Boat House. Last month, a skull was found in the same general area.

The grim findings had some people in the area concerned. Some joggers opted to run in pairs, but others shrugged it off.

"I feel completely safe. I've never had anything even remotely suspicious, so I feel quite comfortable," said jogger Sadie Mosley.

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