{"id":527040,"date":"2026-03-16T15:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/527040\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:16:16","slug":"investigation-underway-after-suspected-human-remains-found-near-fort-wayne-costco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/527040\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation underway after suspected human remains found near Fort Wayne Costco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) &#8211; The Allen County Coroner\u2019s Office is investigating after suspected human remains were found in a Fort Wayne creek on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A spokesperson for the coroner\u2019s office confirmed with 21Alive News on Monday that a fisherman found a human skull and other skeletal remains on a dam in Spy Run Creek, behind Costco, around 2:15 p.m. Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The coroner\u2019s office says they are currently investigating the matter, alongside the Fort Wayne Police Department and the Allen County Prosecutor\u2019s Office. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No further details are available at this time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To be the first to get the latest breaking news alerts, download the 21Alive News App <a href=\"https:\/\/www.21alivenews.com\/page\/get-the-new-abc-21-news-app-today\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">You can also catch the latest news from 21Alive anytime on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.21alivenews.com\/page\/how-to-watch-21alive-livestreams\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.21alivenews.com\/page\/how-to-watch-21alive-livestreams\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roku, Amazon Fire TV, and Apple TV<\/a>. Just search \u201c21Alive\u201d in the app store and download the app to your device.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WPTA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) &#8211; The Allen County Coroner\u2019s Office is investigating after suspected human remains were found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-527040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}