AUBURN — Officers from the Auburn Police Department were dispatched to a construction site at Auburn Community Hospital on June 25 at around 3:15 p.m. for a report that possible human skeletal remains had been unearthed while a contractor was excavating.
APD personnel, representatives from the Cayuga County Coroner, and the Cayuga County District Attorney’s Office responded.
The coroner inspected the uncovered portion of skeletal remains and believed them to be human.
With the assistance of hospital administration, a timeline was developed that the area of the excavation appears to not have been disturbed since sometime over fifty years ago.
At this time, it appears that only one set of human skeletal remains are at the location.
Due to the possible age of the buried remains being more than 50 years old, state law mandates that the New York State Archaeologist be contacted.
Contact was made with them as well as the New York State Police Forensic Investigative Unit and plans were made to exhume the remains.
All specifics about the remains such as age, sex, cause of death are currently unknown.
