Remains found inside a discarded suitcase by the side of a regional road do not belong to a woman as first thought.<\/p>\n
A major NSW police operation kicked into gear on Sunday, when a suitcase with decomposed remains inside was found by two members of the public at Oallen, about 60km southeast of Goulburn, just before 1pm.<\/p>\n
Superintendent Linda Bradbury initially said it was unclear how long the body had been there and police would try to link the body with any missing persons cases.<\/p>\n
Police said on Monday morning they believed the remains were those of a woman but Bradbury later announced forensic investigations had ruled out that the remains belonging to a human. <\/p>\n
“We are still undertaking more forensic work to identify what they are, but we can identify that they are not human,” she told reporters in Goulburn.<\/p>\n
“They were mistaken for a human originally, so they are very realistic in the term of looking like human remains … but we have confirmed they are not.”<\/p>\n
The discovery was made by two men who had pulled onto the side of the road by chance, Bradbury said.<\/p>\n
“They were able to tell us how they came across it,” she added.<\/p>\n
“Unfortunately they were on a weekend drive as a lot of people do over the weekend and stopped for a break.”<\/p>\n
Oallen in the Southern Tablelands region of NSW, is about 109km northeast of Canberra and 225km southwest of Sydney.<\/p>\n
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