Human Remains Found In Churchill Identified
Bones Found Behind Churchill Country Club
POSTED: 7:31 pm EDT March 17, 2010
UPDATED: 3:05 pm EDT March 24, 2010
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CHURCHILL, Pa. -- The Allegheny County medical examiner has identified skeletal remains in Churchill as those of a man who committed suicide.
Police said the remains were spotted March 17 by a passer-by in Bullock-Pens Park, near Chapel Hill and McCrady roads, in a wooded area behind the Churchill Country Club."I responded with my partner and the chief of police. We went up to the scene with the gentleman. He pointed out what he found. What he found appeared to be some skeletal remains," said Churchill police Officer Jeff Henzler.During a preliminary examination, Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz, a professor of anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, told WTAE Channel 4 Action News that the remains were those of a man, approximately 5 feet, 9 inches tall, between 45 and 50 years old.On Wednesday, the medical examiner's office said that the man was 51 and that he had hanged himself with a chain that was found on a tree trunk near his remains. "Identification was based on physical evidence from the scene and additional evidence uncovered by police detectives," said a news release from the ME's office.The ME's office did not give an approximate date of when it thinks the man died.
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