(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- As efforts continue to identify skeletal remains found over a week ago at a home on Chicago's North Side, investigators are asking an anthropologist for help.
Investigators say after 79-year-old Gerald Harris died earlier this month of heart disease at his home in the 2800 block of West Fitch Avenue, relatives went there on Feb. 12 to clean out the residence.
That’s when family members found a clothed skeleton in a bag in the basement, authorities have said.
Natalia Derevyanny of the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office says an anthropologist is being called in to help find answers.
“The anthropologist can do trauma analysis to see if there are tool marks on the skeletal remains, to see if there are any fractures to help us get a greater picture of what might have happened to that individual,” she said.
The Medical Examiner's Office also hopes such things as genetic material and dental information will help identify the skeleton, she said.
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