Skull, Bones Found In Suitcase Were a Woman's, Investigators Say

BUFORD, GA — The human skull and other bones found in a suitcase along Interstate 985 last week belonged to a young woman, investigators said Monday.

The Gwinnett County Medical Examiner's office determined that the remains, found Friday by a Department of Transportation construction worker, belonged to a woman who was roughly 20-30 years old, police said.

The woman appears to have died about six months ago, the report said. It appears that the woman was either mixed race or Hispanic.

Those details don't mesh with any missing-person cases in Gwinnett County, police said.

Investigators will be reaching out to neighboring agencies to see if the details match up with any cases they are working, the department said in a news release.

At about 11 a.m. on Friday, a construction crew working along I-985, just north of where it splits from I-85, called police.

According to police, one of the workers had gone about 80 yards into the woods to relieve himself when he found the suitcase.

The worker then came out of the woods and told his supervisor.

(Photos courtesy Gwinnett County Police Department)