The coroner's office has been called in to investigate the case of a skull found in Mindemoya on Manitoulin Island, the Manitoulin Expositor is reporting.
Community Services Officer Constable Steve Hart of the Manitoulin Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) told the newspaper that police are assisting in what has been deemed a coroner’s investigation, but could not speak to the origins of the skull found in the Mindemoya woodlot.
Hart said he had seen the photos of what appears to be a human skull on the Expositor's newspaper’s website, but could not comment.
On Monday evening a Mindemoya resident discovered the skull and alerted others the following day. Police were then called in to investigate and were stationed at the location all day Tuesday.
Constable Hart did say that a forensic anthropologist would be arriving on the scene Wednesday morning to determine if the skull is in in fact of human ancestry. This will determine how the investigation will proceed.
The skull was found in the woods near the Thorne and Forest Streets apartment complex in Mindemoya.
