PETTIS COUNTY —Authorities are investigating after human skeletal remains were found in an area southeast of Sedalia.

On Saturday evening, October 27, a Missouri Conservation agent reported locating human bones near the Eagle Brook Farm subdivision southeast of Sedalia.  Pettis County deputies responded to the agent’s location and took custody of the scene for the night.

Pettis County Sheriff Kevin Bond says the remains weren’t buried. He says authorities had to hike to them because the area where they were found is “densely wooded.”

On Sunday, investigators from the Pettis County Sheriff’s Office and Pettis County Coroner’s Office processed the scene with the assistance of a forensic anthropologist and an investigator with the Boone County Medical Examiners Office.  Skeletal remains and other evidence were recovered and transported to Columbia for further analysis to determine identity.