{"id":418039,"date":"2026-10-03T22:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T22:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/418039\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T22:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T22:14:09","slug":"human-skeletal-remains-found-near-yopp-road-and-u-s-17-in-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/418039\/","title":{"rendered":"Human skeletal remains found near Yopp Road and U.S. 17 in Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacksonville police say they are investigating after human skeletal remains were found Saturday morning in a wooded area near Yopp Road and U.S. 17.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded around 8:52 a.m. Oct. 3 after a person mowing grass reported finding the remains, according to the Jacksonville Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Police located the remains, and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation helped process the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say they have a potential identification but are withholding the person\u2019s name until the State Medical Examiner\u2019s Office confirms the identity.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains active and ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information should contact Detective R. Feller at 910-938-6410 or rfeller@jacksonvillenc.gov.<\/p>\n<p>Anonymous tips can be submitted to Crime Stoppers at 910-938-3273. Crime Stoppers offers cash rewards of up to $5,000 for information determined to be valuable to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Tips can also be anonymously texted by sending TIP4CSJAX followed by the message to 274637.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville police say they are investigating after human skeletal remains were found Saturday morning in a wooded area&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-418039","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\/418039","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=418039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}