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Article: State crime lab studies body parts from field.(General News)(Testing: Identification will be difficult because farm equipment cut up and scattered the human remains.)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- September 7, 2002
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Byline: REBECCA NOLAN The Register-Guard
HARRISBURG - Investigators are struggling to identify hundreds of tiny human body parts culled from a grass seed field in Harrisburg last week.
It was a grim harvest as 15 workers from the Linn County sheriff's office and a dozen more from Washington County combed the field off Peoria Road near American Drive for four days, looking for bone fragments and other remains.
They crawled on hands and knees, shoulder to shoulder, digging through the dirt in 90-degree temperatures, Linn County Undersheriff Tim Mueller said.
But the mystery of how the body ended up in the field was no closer to being ...