Skull found in crab pot going to FBI lab
Posted: February 25, 2014 - 3:38am
WESTPORT, Wash. (AP) -- The human skull found in a crab pot off the Washington coast is being sent to the FBI crime lab at Quantico, Va.
Grays Harbor Undersheriff Dave Pimentel tells KXRO (http://www.kxro.com ) investigators hope to extract DNA, which may lead to an identification.
The partial human skull was found Friday morning in a crab pot about 2 miles off of Westport. The fisherman set the pot the previous week in water 90-to-100 feet deep.
An anthropologist in King County confirmed the skull is human.
Pimentel says nothing else is known about the skull, including how it got into the crab pot.