Authorities in Florida say a skull found at a local thrift store may have belonged to a human.
A customer found the skull Saturday at a Halloween section on North Cleveland Avenue in north Fort Myers, according to a news release shared by the Lee County Sheriff’s Office.
The person who found the skull “happened to be an anthropologist” and recognized the bone as human when she came across the object, authorities said.
They added that the store owner said the skull was found in a warehouse that had been purchased “years before.”
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Skull found at thrift store in North Fort Myers.
Lee County Sheriff’s Office
LCSO Major Crimes Unit detectives recovered a skull, which they also “believed to be human.”
The remains have since been turned over to the District 21 Medical Examiner’s Office, which is working with the LCSO to “further test the skull,” according to the sheriff’s office.
Under Florida law, it is illegal to “knowingly offer to buy or sell, or buy, sell or otherwise transfer any human organ or tissue” — including eyes, corneas, kidneys, liver, heart, lungs, pancreas, bones and skin.
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The discovery in Florida comes nearly two months after another human skull was found in a box donated to Goodwill in Arizona.
In September, police learned the skull was among “other taxidermy items” at a store in Goodyear, according to ABC affiliate KNXV-TV and Republic of Arizona.
The Goodyear Police Department said the medical examiner’s initial findings confirm that the skull is not only human, but also appears to be “historical.”
Police said the skull “does not appear to be crime-related” and appears to have “no forensic value,” GYPD Public Information Officer Lisa Berry said in a video shared by the department at the time.
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