Human bones found in Edinburg Posted at: 10/27/2009 2:50 PM Updated at: 10/27/2009 2:54 PM By: The Post-Star EDINBURG -- The discovery of what appeared to be human bones Monday in woods off Fox Hill Road has State Police searching for other human remains today. Police are trying to determine from whom the bones came, and whether the remains can be linked to any area missing persons cases, such as the 2007 disappearance of Greenwich boy Jaliek Rainwalker. Part of the bone appears to be from a human skull, officials said. Neither State Police investigators nor Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell would comment on the matter Tuesday afternoon. Trooper Maureen Tuffey acknowledged that "bone fragments" were discovered, and it was being investigated whether they were human. Saratoga County District Attorney James Murphy said the State Police forensic identification unit is involved in the matter as well. He said investigators are trying to determine how old the portion of a skull is, how long it's been in the woods and to whom it belonged. DNA tests will be done to try to match it with people who have been reported missing. "We do have a number of missing persons cases in the area," he said. "It's still too early to say. There are lots of questions. It's going to take some significant time." More details will be posted as they become available. This story originally appeard on Post-Star.com. http://wnyt.com/article/stories/s1215377.shtml

Posted at: 10/29/2009 2:13 PM Updated at: 10/30/2009 11:31 AM By: Chris Rooney Bones belonged to Colorado girl BALLSTON SPA - The bones discovered this week in Saratoga County belonged to a Colorado girl who vanished in Ballston Spa in 2003. At a news conference late Thursday afternoon District Attorney James Murphy and other law enforcement officials said they are the remains of 18-year-old Jennifer Hammond, originally of Littleton, Colorado. She went missing while selling magazines in a Ballston Spa trailer park. The bones, which included a portion of a young person's skull, were found Monday in a wooded area off Lake Desolation Road in Greenfield. Hammond was selling magazines in the Creek and Pines Trailer Park in August 2003 when she failed to meet her employer at a designated pick-up area. According to the state police website, she had made arrangements for a bus ticket back to Colorado, but the ticket was never picked up and her belongings were left abandoned in an Albany hotel. Her family never heard from her again. Investigators hoped the discovery would be the break they needed in one of several missing persons cases. Yesterday, Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell said he had been informed the remains were not likely those of Jaliek Rainwalker - the 12-year-old Greenwich boy who vanished on Nov. 1, 2007. Other missing children cases from the region include 12-year-old Sara Ann Wood who was kidnapped in Herkimer County in 1993 and 14-year-old Tammie McCormick of Saratoga Springs who was last seen in 1986. http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S1221097.shtml