{"id":108525,"date":"2025-01-15T18:03:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T18:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/duck-hunters-discover-human-remains-deep-in-wooded-area-on-hunting-trip\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T18:03:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T18:03:29","slug":"duck-hunters-discover-human-remains-deep-in-wooded-area-on-hunting-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/duck-hunters-discover-human-remains-deep-in-wooded-area-on-hunting-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Duck hunters discover human remains deep in wooded area on hunting trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-15\/GETTYRF_41322_POliceLineTape%20%281%29.jpg\" alt><figcaption>mbbirdy\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(<span>Taylorsville, N.C.) &#8212; <\/span>Two local duck hunters in North Carolina ended up discovering human remains during an outing earlier this week, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on Monday afternoon at approximately 5:49 p.m. when two duck hunters were scouting an area in Taylorsville, North Carolina &#8212; about 60 miles north of Charlotte &#8212; when they came across human remains in a wooded area around the 1600 block of Highway 16 North, according to a statement from the Alexander County Sheriff\u2019s Department on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn January 14th, 2025 the Alexander County Sheriff&#8217;s Office with the assistance of the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation processed the scene,\u201d authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The identity of the human remains is currently unknown and police did not disclose how long they estimated the remains had been there for.<\/p>\n<p>No other details about the case have been released and the person\u2019s death is currently under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mbbirdy\/Getty Images (Taylorsville, N.C.) &#8212; Two local duck hunters in North Carolina ended up discovering human remains during an outing earlier this week, police said. The incident occurred on Monday afternoon at approximately 5:49 p.m. when two duck hunters were scouting an area in Taylorsville, North Carolina &#8212; about 60<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/duck-hunters-discover-human-remains-deep-in-wooded-area-on-hunting-trip\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}