WEST OCEAN CITY — There are more questions than answers this week after a mysterious discovery of a what is now being called a barrel containing possible human remains in shallow water in West Ocean City on Tuesday.
Around 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, a couple from Ellicott City was walking on the beach and in the water off Homer Gudelsky Park, or better known locally as Stinky Beach, a narrow, sandy sliver of beach at the end of Old Bridge Road in West Ocean City, The couple came across a submerged object appearing to be a suitcase or chest. According to the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office, the couple reached into the object, now being identified as a barrel, and pulled out items such as parts of a woman’s shoe, pottery and what appeared to be a bone.
The Worcester County Sheriff’s Office deputy who responded to the initial call also believed the object was a bone and called for the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation to respond to the scene. WCBI detectives arrived and concurred the object removed from barrel appeared to be a bone. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner was called and sent an investigator to the scene and the investigator also concurred.
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What an EMBARRASSMENT how did they not think about bthe tide ? WCSO dropped the ball.
ReplyDeleteWell it was the NRP dive team in the water attempting to remove it...
DeleteCould this be a remnant of past hurricane flooding?
ReplyDeleteI agree 3:47, no bones about it.
ReplyDeleteCrime scene 101 SECURE THE SCENE what a bunch of rookies.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many thousands of dollars they spent on chicken bones from Popeyes?
ReplyDeleteOld chicken bones from on of the English's Restaurants from way back in the day!
ReplyDeletePeople are saying it was pirates
ReplyDeleteDon’t ask me about my business Kay.
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