Sheriff Bill Greening, left, watches as the digging continued at the site of a new home west of Antigo, where what appeared to be human remains were found.
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Discovery in town of Ackley fuels speculation, remains will be tested July 20, 2010 State crime investigators and local law enforcement officers sifted through mounds of earth just north of the Riverview Country Club golf course Monday in a bid to solve a mystery that was launched earlier in the day.
Building contractors working on a basement of a new residence on Hunter Circle found what appeared to be human remains at about 8:30 a.m., launching the activities that are continuing today.
Some bones that appear to be human have been recovered as well as pieces of hair and even some badly deteriorated apparel and jewelry.
Sheriff Bill Greening was at the scene for much of the day and said that parts of a skeleton were recovered, but since the area had been a building site for the new home, potential evidence may be scattered and even removed from the location.
Authorities noted that the site near the intersection of Highway 64 and the Eau Claire River has been occupied by humans for well over a century. It was one of the early agricultural areas and some of the first settlers coming to Langlade County arrived here using the Eau Claire River in the days before the expansion of the railroad.
During the first few decades of the 1900s the area of the river and the highway was also home to a large and very active picnic grounds and dance pavilion, known as Riverview.
Greening said generations and generations of people have recreated, worked and lived in the area where the remains were discovered.
“The bones and other materials have been collected and taken to the crime lab in Madison for a forensic autopsy,” Greening said.
The discovery sparked extra interest and speculation because an Antigo teen, Kayla Berg, vanished just under one year ago. The investigation into her disappearance is continuing.
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