Bone found near kidnap home 'probably human'

9 Sep 2009, 11:19 am   -   Source: AP/SBS
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The bone fragment was found in a garden once tended by kidnap suspect Phillip Garrido (AAP)

The bone fragment was found in a garden once tended by kidnap suspect Phillip Garrido (AAP)

A fragment of bone found near the home where kidnap suspect Phillip Garrido held Jaycee Dugard captive for 18 years is probably human, US police say.

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A fragment of bone found near the home where kidnap suspect Phillip Garrido held Jaycee Dugard captive for 18 years is probably human, US police say.

A forensic expert who performed tests on the fragment recovered last week ruled the bone shard was likely to have come from a person.
 
Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department has asked the state crime lab to perform DNA tests to determine the bone's age and who it might have belonged to.

Sheriff's Department spokesman Jimmy Lee said it was not unusual to recover Native American remains in the area.

Investigators discovered the fragment in the yard of the home next to the one where Garrido and his wife, Nancy, allegedly held Jaycee Dugard captive for 18 years.

For a brief time in 2006, Garrido took care of the neighbouring house while it was vacant, and sometimes camped in the yard.


 

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