A human skull has been located in an area where a female was reported missing earlier this year in Newton County.
Newton County Sheriff Glenn Wheeler says the discovery was made Monday morning. The skull was located by a local resident southwest of Sam’s Throne near Mt. Judea on U.S. Forest Service land.
Wheeler says the skull was the only thing found so far, but investigators will continue to search the area for other remains.
Wheeler says, “At this point we don’t have an official identification on who this is. He says the skull will be submitted to the Arkansas Medical Examiner’s Office to try and obtain an identity or compare it to known missing person cases. Wheeler says the discovery was made near an area that was the subject of a multi-week, large-scale search for a missing woman in June.
Fifty-seven-year-old Pamela Samuels-Lauro was reporting missing from Garland County on June 3, and her pickup was found near Sam’s Throne a few days later, prompting authorities to search the area extensively for weeks.
Wheeler says while authorities do not know if the two incidents are connected, he has notified Samuels-Lauor’s family of the development.
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