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Police say what were believed to be human remains in a dumped suitcase in NSW are not human at all.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n
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Police were called to the site yesterday.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n
Superintendent Linda Bradbury said the contents of the suitcase had initially been mistaken for the remains of a human woman.<\/p>\n
She said police did not, as a habit, significantly disturb human remains at a crime scene, meaning the contents of the suitcase had not been closely examined.<\/p>\n
But testing this morning proved they were not human – though Bradbury said further testing would be needed to determine what their provenance was.<\/p>\n
The suitcase may have held a doll-like object.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo some good news here that\u00a0we don\u2019t have a suspicious death of\u00a0a human on our hands,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are very\u00a0realistic in the terms of looking\u00a0like human remains, but we\u2019ve\u00a0confirmed by other means that they\u00a0are not.\u201d<\/p>\n
She confirmed police would continue to investigate the incident.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Today earlier this morning, Bradbury said a couple were out for a drive when they came across the discovery.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were out on a weekend drive as a lot of people do when they stopped for a break and found it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cQuite a shocking discovery for them, absolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n
After finding out the remains were not human, Bradbury said the couple who made the discovery did the right thing in calling police.<\/p>\n
\u201cMembers of the public did initially think they\u2019d come across human remains,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What were believed to be decomposed remains stuffed in a suitcase discovered in bushland in NSW yesterday are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":["post-849691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}