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JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) – Jacksonville police say they are investigating after human skeletal remains were found Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
According to the Jacksonville Police Department, officers responded around 8:52 a.m. to a wooded area near the corner of Yopp Road and U.S. 17 after a person mowing grass discovered what appeared to be a skeleton.<\/p>\n
Police say officers arrived and located human skeletal remains. Police add that the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation assisted with processing the scene.<\/p>\n
Officials say they have a potential identification of the remains but are withholding the person\u2019s identity until it can be confirmed by the State Medical Examiner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
The investigation remains active and ongoing.<\/p>\n
Officials ask anyone with information to contact Jacksonville police Detective R. Feller at 910-938-6410<\/a> or Crime Stoppers at 910-938-3273<\/a>. Crime Stoppers offers cash rewards of up to $5,000 for information determined to be valuable to law enforcement.<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story. JACKSONVILLE, N.C.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[36276,667,116,118,117,165441,132,16480,165442,123328,165440],"class_list":["post-418091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-found","tag-investigation","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-ncsbi","tag-police","tag-skeleton","tag-state-medical-examiners-office","tag-us-17","tag-yopp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418091","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=418091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}