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TX: 2 sets of remains found in Hewitt; one ID'd
Topic Started: Sep 8 2013, 08:17 PM (279 Views)
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Hewitt family finds skeletal remains

Posted: Sunday, September 8, 2013 12:01 am | Updated: 1:06 am, Sun Sep 8, 2013.

By DON BOLDING dbolding@wacotrib.com




Hewitt police Saturday reported finding two sets of skeletal human remains near the 100 block of Bridle Trail after residents there called them about finding a number of bones.

Police Chief Jim Devlin said the department is treating the discovery as a potential crime scene.




“We assume it’s a homicide and work backwards,” Devlin said. “We know nothing about the remains now, and I don’t expect we’ll have a report for about six weeks. In the meantime, we’re checking databases for missing persons.”

Devlin said Hewitt has no reports of missing people.

“I can’t remember the last time we’ve had bodies found like this,” he said.

A family was walking on some heavily wooded land adjacent to their property Friday when one of them found what she thought to be an animal bone and picked it up, Devlin said.

Then family members found what appeared to be a human skull and called police at 7:16 p.m. Friday.

The first bone is thought to be a human femur.

City police and detectives, along with Texas Department of Public Safety crime laboratory officers, began combing the area at 7 a.m. Saturday and found other bones, including what Devlin called “a second set of skeletal remains.”

Devlin declined to say whether either body was intact.

All the remains were sent to the Southwest Institute of Forensic Sciences to determine sex, age, cause of death and other factors, including whether insects or animals had touched the bodies.
http://www.wacotrib.com/news/greater_waco/...63e1e65e90.html
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By DON BOLDING dbolding@wacotrib.com




A student-faculty team headed by Lori Baker of the Baylor University Forensic Anthropology Department on Thursday visited the site where human skeletal remains were found last weekend in Hewitt and collected some small bones that earlier searches missed, said Hewitt Police Chief Jim Devlin.

Also, a Travis County search and rescue team with cadaver dogs combed the area but found nothing to add to materials already recovered.




Devlin said he called Baylor for aid because of the anthropologists’ expertise in turning up small, hidden items. He said they combed leaves and brush and found bones the size of finger bones to send to the Southwest Institute of Forensic Sciences in Dallas, which is analyzing the remains of what are thought to be two people found along Bridle Path.

“We’ve been working out there steadily, but we haven’t found any more significant evidence, and no evidence of any more bodies,” he said.

A family out walking found what they thought was an animal bone but called police when they found a human skull. Investigators then found a second set of remains. Area residents said they smelled a foul odor in January, but Devlin would not speculate on the age of the remains until the analysis is finished.
http://www.wacotrib.com/news/police/baylor...e4a7ac5b2a.html
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http://www.wacotrib.com/news/greater_waco/...82a3f0226a.html

Authorities ID one set of skeletal remains found in Hewitt
Posted: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 7:25 pm
By OLIVIA MESSER

Authorities have identified one of two sets of male skeletal remains found Sept. 6 in Hewitt, police announced Wednesday.

The remains are those of Dallas resident Erasmo Guillen-Ruiz, who was born in 1969. Hewitt Police Chief Jim Devlin said that Guillen-Ruiz’s death has been listed as a homicide from a gunshot wound to the head, but the investigation is still ongoing.

A person found the bones in September and directed officers to a heavily wooded area near his property in the 100 block of Bridle Trail. Both sets of remains were sent to the Southwest Institute of Forensic Sciences in Dallas to be examined.

The process included DNA extraction performed by the University of North Texas. The results matched Guillen-Ruiz’s DNA, which was on file from his arrest on felony DWI charges, Devlin said.

The second set of remains has yet to be identified, and police were unable to find the skull. Devlin said he believed the skull was separated from the body by natural causes, such as a storm.

Police said they believe the second set of remains are those of a white male, age 35 to 45, who was between 5 feet 9 inches and 6 feet 3 inches tall.

“We are hoping that, since we got this break, that is going to lead us into the identification” of the second set of remains, he said.

“We’ve gotten a lot of information since the story broke,” he said. “We had a lot of leads that were given to us, and every lead that we get is something positive to follow up on.”

Suzanne Baldon, an assistant professor of criminal justice at McLennan Community College and an expert in facial reconstruction, assisted authorities by rendering a reconstruction of Guillen-Ruiz’s skull before the DNA match was made.

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