Human remains found along Moniteau County creek

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

People combing a creek bed in Moniteau County for deer antlers found human remains over the weekend, the sheriff said Tuesday.

Sheriff Tony Wheatley said the shed hunters found a partial human skeleton along a creek on Indian Springs Road, west of Jamestown, and deputies recovered it Saturday night. The sheriff's office sent the bones to the Boone County Medical Examiner's Office for identification, Wheatley said.

Wheatley said it's not clear how old the bones are, and that the area has some indigenous burial sites, so an anthropologist is also examining the remains.