Human skeletal remains discovered in a wooded stretch of Bridge City near U.S. Highway 90 have been confirmed as human, and the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office is now working to determine who they belonged to. Deputies responded to the area on Oct. 5 after a report of possible remains, and investigators publicly confirmed the finding a week later.
How the Discovery Unfolded
According to wdsu.com, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office is investigating the discovery of human skeletal remains in Bridge City. Deputies responded on Oct. 5 at around 10:30 a.m. to a report of possible human remains found in a wooded area in the 2100 block of U.S. Highway 90, per the sheriff's office account relayed by fox8live.com. Deputies located the remains at the scene, and they were confirmed to be human.
The sheriff's office did not make the discovery public until Oct. 12, when it announced the find in a wooded area near the Westbank Expressway, the station's report notes. The gap between the initial response and the public announcement spans about a week, though the wooded location described matches the same site near Highway 90 referenced in the original report. As WGNO also reported, the remains were found in Bridge City, Louisiana, with deputies responding after the sheriff's office relayed the initial report.
Identification Effort Now Underway
The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office says it is now working to identify the remains, per the same account. No further details on the person's identity, cause of death, or any connection to a missing-person case have been released alongside the confirmation that the remains are human.
Jefferson Parish does maintain broader resources for families searching for missing loved ones. The sheriff's office's own missing-persons page cautions that its posted photographs do not reflect all reported missing persons or runaway children in unincorporated Jefferson Parish, according to jpso.com. Separately, Louisiana maintains a centralized, searchable database and interactive map of unidentified and missing-person cases statewide, as described by the LA Repository for Unidentified & Missing People.
How to Help the Investigation
Investigators are asking anyone with information about the case to come forward. Fox8live reports that people with information are asked to contact the Jefferson Parish Homicide Section at 504-364-5300 or Crimestoppers. No additional details about the investigation have been released as the sheriff's office continues working to identify the remains.
