{"id":296657,"date":"2026-06-05T02:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T02:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/296657\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T02:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T02:08:09","slug":"bone-found-near-road-leads-to-discovery-of-human-remains-behind-jacksonville-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/296657\/","title":{"rendered":"Bone found near road leads to discovery of human remains behind Jacksonville home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A single mysterious bone found on the side of a Jacksonville road led to the launch of a full-on human death investigation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office, a bone on the side of Lincrest Road South in the Harborview area, was discovered late Wednesday night. Police were called out to the scene, along with a Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office doctor, who determined it belonged to a person.<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firstcoastnews.com\/assets\/shared-images\/icons\/arrow-circle-down.svg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                This story continues below.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>That bone led to a larger search of the area. Thursday morning, police say a cadaver dog led them to the backyard of a home on the same street where more skeletal remains were found.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A search warrant was obtained for the property and investigators combed the scene Thursday for evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Police were not able to immediately identify the deceased person. How they died and how the skeleton arrived in the yard remains unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on the incident is encouraged to reach out to the Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office at 904-630-0500, JSOCRIMETIPS@Jaxsheriff.org, or anonymously through First Coast Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A single mysterious bone found on the side of a Jacksonville road led to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-296657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296657","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=296657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}