Two human teeth were found within two feet of where a human skull was found two weeks ago in the brush off Ocean Parkway near Tobay Beach, police said Friday.
Investigators continue to search the same area, making their way through the thick brush with machetes and clearing an area to get a better look at the ground.
“Today we reexamined an area where a skull was found on County property,” said Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano. “Using machetes, clippers and cleaning out a 25 foot area around where the skull was discovered. Today there was an additional discovery of two teeth.”
They are unsure at this time whether the two teeth are from the skull that was previously found and are awaiting forensic analysis by the medical examiner..
“We developed a grid type search pattern,” says Det. Lt. Kevin Smith of the Nassau County Police Department. “There’s a lot of brush, a lot of bramble, it’s very difficult to walk in that area so using chainsaws and other earth clearing handtools we were able to get in there and dig around…there’s a lot of debris, layers of layers of soil, roots, any vegetation that has died, it’s just layer upon layer.”
Police say they will continue the search into next week at times determined by information they receive from the medical examiner, data from the FBI flyover last week and information from forensic anthropologists.
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Forensics experts are still working to identify six sets of remains in the past four weeks, including a human skull and partial human skeletal remains found separately near Tobay Beach and four sets of remains found on the Suffolk County side of Jones Beach Island.