A group of children attending a summer camp in western Massachusetts made a grim discovery last week Wednesday, August 23.
The young explorers, accompanied by adult chaperones, were participating in a program aimed at teaching them about the environment when they found human skeletal remains on an island in the Connecticut River, near Greenfield and Montague, according to the NBC Boston.
The program, Biocitizen Inc., was in session when a 7-year-old boy first spotted the bones. Kurt Heidinger, the program's founder, initially assumed the bones belonged to a deer. However, another boy found a human skull, leading the group to promptly alert the authorities. The remains were discovered on Rawson Island, as reported by the New England Cable News (NECN).
Investigators, including Greenfield, Montague, and state police and the Northwestern District Attorney's Office, were quick to collect whatever evidence they could that day. The Chief Medical Examiner's Office also responded promptly to ensure the complete recovery of all remains, according to an article on WCVB. The task of identifying the remains now falls upon the medical examiner.
As it stands, the investigation is still ongoing, and no further information or leads have been released to the public.
