The week after I moved to Humboldt a partial human skull was found in the softball field. After playing a round and a half of golf with two buddies and leaving them at hole 3, I sent out the following email:
From: Pizza Guy
Subject: Nature's little frisbee
Date: January 30, 2006 10:56:46 AM PST
To: Long Arm
Hey Long Arm,
Did you guys check out that mysterious object on the way to hole #4 yesterday?
-Pizza Guy
From: Long Arm
Subject: re: Nature's little frisbee
Date: January 30, 2006 10:56:46 AM PST
To: Pizza Guy
On Jan 30, 2006, at 11:15 AM, Long Arm wrote:
We looked for it, but didn't see anything. We were looking near the fence/dugout area.....What was it?
Sorry I missed you at the course, but I saw a cool photo of a disc hung on a basket*.
-Long Arm
* my disc had somehow hit the outside edge of the basket and held on by the rim like a person clinging to the edge of a cliff!
From: Pizza Guy
Subject: ze: re: Nature's little frisbee
Date: January 30, 2006 10:56:46 AM PST
To: Long Arm
It looked to me like the top part of a human skull. I was hoping for a second opinion. Shawn reminded me that the course is on a graveyard...
Eerie, spooky stuff.
Yeah, that hanging disc was pretty far out! How was your game? Sorry I missed you, too.
-Pizza Guy
From: -Pizza Guy
Subject: re: mysterious object
Date: January 30, 2006 4:07:35 PM PST
To: -Long Arm
I just went over to Cooper to throw some discs and it was crawling with Sheriff's department, complete with shovels and rakes and dogs. Guess that mystery item really was a skull. Dang!!
-Pizza Guy
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MORE ON THAT...
(note the keen forensic work)
From the North Coast Journal:
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EUREKA SKULLDUGGERY: A person walking through the softball fields at Cooper Gulch recreational area in Eureka discovered part of a skull at 4:30 p.m. on Monday. EPD, Eureka Volunteer Patrol, a police dog and the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office divided the fields into three quadrants and combed the area searching for clues. Other bones were found, including some vertebrae, according to police. The Humboldt County Coroner's Office took possession of the remains Monday and a local anthropologist has also examined the bones. Coroner Frank Jager said Tuesday that from his preliminary examination, the skull appears to be that of a young Caucasian female, 25 to 35 years old or younger. Police recovered 75 percent of the skull, which, according to Jager, was "broken up pretty good." Jager also said that the bones appear to have been outdoors or buried in excess of one year, though they were not buried at Cooper's Gulch but placed there "by someone or something" more recently. An investigation is continuing.
AS IT TURNS OUT...
From the North Coast Journal:
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Two plead guilty in Buhne Crypt vandalism case
Posted on Tuesday, June 06 @ 22:17:32 CDT
Topic: Vandalism
Vandalism6/6/2006
Eureka, California Eureka residents Marsha Markussen and Daniel Malin both entered guilty pleas to vandalizing a crypt and disturbing a corpse Monday afternoon. They are scheduled to be sentenced June 29.
Earlier this year, Markussen and Malin were charged with removing human remains from a place of interment and vandalizing and desecrating a tomb or gravestone.
The charges stemmed from an incident that occurred Jan. 24, when the Buhne Crypt in the cemetery in Myrtletown was vandalized.
On the weekend of Feb. 10, an informant came forward and told Eureka Police Department detectives that the skull found in Cooper Gulch Jan. 29 had been taken from the crypt.
The skull belonged to the remains of Kenneth Newett Jr., who served as Humboldt County District Attorney in 1914 and died in June of that year from complications from surgery.
At the time of his death, Newett, 49, had been married since 1910 to Sophie Buhne, one of Hans Buhne’s daughters, Jager said.
Markussen and Malin were conditioned on grants of felony probation, meaning they won’t have to go to prison at the outset. They will remain in custody until sentencing.
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