TIMBER CREW FINDS SKELETAL REMAINS SOUTHEAST OF MOLALLA; HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION LAUNCHED; TIPS SOUGHT
Clackamas Co. Sheriff's Office Clackamas County Sheriff's Office detectives are seeking tips after locating skeletal human remains in a remote wilderness area southeast of Molalla. The case is being investigated as a homicide. On Friday, Jan. 8, a Weyerhauser crew working in a wilderness area southeast of Molalla stumbled across human remains, including a partial human skull. The remains were found at a work site where the crew was planting trees, in a steep ravine off a private logging road. Scraps of clothing found in the area suggest the remains may have been there for some time. The remains predate the wildfires that swept through that area last September. The work crew notified the Sheriff's Office. Sheriff's Office deputies, detectives, and forensic specialists responded to the scene, along with the Clackamas County Medical Examiner's Office and Oregon State Police Crime Scene Investigators (CSI). Because of the steep 45-degree incline where the bones were f