{"id":129780,"date":"2026-01-23T23:27:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T23:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/129780\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T23:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T23:27:06","slug":"state-archeologists-medical-examiner-investigating-after-casket-and-bone-fragments-found-at-tom-brown-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/129780\/","title":{"rendered":"State archeologists, medical examiner investigating after \u2018casket and bone fragments\u2019 found at Tom Brown Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) &#8211; The discovery of \u201cwhat appeared to be remnants of a casket and bone fragments\u201d by city crews in Tom Brown Park this week has prompted a state investigation, according to a social media post from the City of Tallahassee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The State Medical Examiner\u2019s Office and archaeologists with the Department of State\u2019s Division of Historical Resources are \u201cconducting an analysis of the discovery to determine next steps,\u201d per the city. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-center article-text\">More Tallahassee news:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The casket and bone fragments were found \u201coff the beaten path,\u201d and nearby, a small cemetery dating back to the early 1900s. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The city noted in its social media post that Tom Brown Park was formerly federal land before it was converted into a city park in 1977. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To keep up with the latest news as it develops, follow WCTV on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WCTV.tv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wctvnews\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WCTVEyewitnessNews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nextdoor.com\/page\/wctv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/nextdoor.com\/page\/wctv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nextdoor<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/nextdoor.com\/page\/wctv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/nextdoor.com\/page\/wctv\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCTV\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCTV\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Have a news tip or see an error? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wctv.tv\/2026\/01\/23\/state-archeologists-medical-examiner-investigating-after-casket-bone-fragments-found-tom-brown-park\/mailto:news@wctv.tv?subject=Correction%20Needed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Write to us here<\/a>. 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(WCTV) &#8211; The discovery of \u201cwhat appeared to be remnants of a casket and bone fragments\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64012,1721,64013,17724,235,32246,31914,2457,64011,232,234,233,54549,7026],"class_list":["post-129780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-bones","tag-capital-city","tag-casket","tag-cemetery","tag-city-of-tallahassee","tag-discovery","tag-forest","tag-history","tag-remains","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-tom-brown-park","tag-trail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}