Hunters find human skull in South Carolina; sheriff vows "best efforts" to ID victim and bring justice
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Authorities said a skull found in a hunting area in South Carolina belonged to someone who was African American, and older than 35 — but police still trying to figure out their identity.
Hunters discovered the skull on Dec. 21 in Sumter, a small city in central South Carolina about an hour east of Columbia. They contacted the Sumter County Sheriff's Office after one hunter spotted a round white object that appeared to be human remains, the sheriff's office said in a news release.
Authorities recovered the skull and sent it to the coroner's office for a forensic exam. The results showed it belonged to an African American person older than 35, according to the sheriff's office. But authorities could not find anyone in Sumter County's database of missing people who matched the remains.
