Bone Discovery Catches Attention Of Missing Women's Parents

MORGAN COUNTY, Ind. -- Parents of women involved in separate missing-person cases hoped to learn more information Monday about human remains that were recently found, but authorities said the bones probably won't be identified for days.

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Discovery Catches Attention Of Missing Women's Parents

The bones were discovered Sunday by two hunters in a wooded area just north of Paragon, RTV6's Ben Morriston reported.

Investigators still weren't sure Monday whether the remains -- including portions of a cranium, a jawbone, vertebrae, and extremity bones -- belonged to a male or female. They also don't know how long the bones had been there.

Investigators searched the area Monday, hoping to find other remains or personal effects that might have belonged to the deceased person, but nothing more was discovered, police said.

The mother of a missing Greenwood woman and the father of another missing woman visited the investigation scene Monday, despite being given no reason to believe the bones are related to their daughters' cases.

Kim Louks, mother of Brookley Louks, was hoping to learn more about the bones Monday.

"I know they have to go through their procedures. It's part of it," Kim Louks said.

Brookley Louks was 19 when she was reported missing in June. Authorities presume she is dead.

Vernon Coleman, father of Lola Catherine Fry, also hoped to learn something Monday.

Fry was 28 when she reported missing in November 1993.

"You go to bed thinking about it. You get up thinking about it," Coleman said.

Searchers will return to the area Tuesday to search for more remains.

The bones will be examined by anthropologists at the University of Indianapolis. Experts could take a week to 10 days to identify the remains if they match with a known missing person, Indiana State Police 1st Sgt. Dave Bursten said.

If the bones don't match with a missing-person case, the process could take longer.

"If we make the comparisons among all the known missing-person cases in the general area and none of those match with the dental information that we have, then it could be an undetermined amount of time," Bursten said.