Tuesday, April 14, 2009

At my age, it is interesting what memories emerge when you read something like this in the paper... Judge Davis coming to school with his suit case...

which contained the human skeletal remains of someone that was found in the flood debris of the Sabine river when he was County Judge...
Show and Tell was a bit more interesting back then at school.
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FORT WORTH -- A 32-year-old Fort Worth man called police Monday evening, reporting that his dog had apparently carried home a new toy -- a human skull.
The man's wife, Sayra Hernandez, said she was taking her 10-year-old son to the bus stop Monday morning when she spotted the skull lying in the back yard of her home on Springfield Street.
Hernandez, 28, said she attempted to keep her dog at bay while she carefully scooped her find into a plastic bag, then stored it in the garage until her husband arrived home from work.
"I didn’t know if it was fake or real. It looked real," she said
Of the same opinion, her husband called police Monday evening. Homicide detectives and investigators with the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s office arrived to try to make heads or tails of the discovery.
A quick examination revealed that the cranium was, in fact, human, but part of an anatomical teaching specimen, said Dana Austin, a forensic anthropologist with the medical examiner’s office.
Austin said the cranium, which appeared to be of East Indian descent, still bore faded numbers on the forehead and some stained red plasticine material to mark arterial passages.
"It’s the kind of thing somebody might steal from an anatomy lab years ago, and it can sit in a garage for years," Austin said. "They turn up from time to time."

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