Investigators return to Opelika site where remains of child found

 

Police are planning more searches of an Opelika trailer park where a child's human remains were discovered.
Opelika Police Capt. Bruce DeLong said that police plan to return to the site today and thoroughly search the area for any more skeletal remains or evidence.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has joined Opelika police in the investigation of skeletal remains found at the Brook Haven Trailer Park in Opelika.

Remains, including a skull, were discovered there on Jan. 28. Police believe they are that of a child of less than 10 years of age at the time of death. Tuesday, the Lee County Coroner's office announced the death a homicide.

Investigators returned to the location in the 1700 block of Hurst Street on two other occasions in which more remains were discovered scattered around the trailer park and subsequently sent to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences in Montgomery.

Police say the race, gender and exact cause of death of the child are unknown.