Mystery Deepens After Human Skull Found At Chelsea Goodwill Store

A human skull was dropped off at a Goodwill store in Chelsea earlier this year, and the Washington County medical examiner has announced that the skull was not a medical or teaching specimen.

Think about that for a second. Say you go into a Goodwill store and see a skull sitting on the shelf and think to yourself, “This would be an awesome Halloween decoration." Except this belongs to a real person and you don't know where it came from.

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Only to find out that it is not a prop at all, but a real human skull, and now the police are saying that the investigation into this has only just begun.

Recently, the Washington County medical examiner teamed up with the University of Michigan Anthropology Department and discovered that the skull dropped off was that of a black female with an estimated age between 20 and 49 years old.

One of the biggest problems they currently have is that they don’t have any kind of identification of the person who initially dropped it off, as WXYZ reported.

Chelsea police verified in the statement the findings the anthropology department made and confirmed that they would be passing the skull onto the FBI, where it will be tested in a crime lab in Quantico, Virginia:

The skull is well preserved, skeletonized, dry in there are traces of adherent Soil on it. There are no signs of trauma to the skull and no indication that it was used as a medical or teaching specimen.

 

So what does that mean exactly? One could assume there are worries that this could be a potential victim in a case involving fall play. It also could mean that the goal was illegally taken off of somebody who passed away from other causes.

As of right now, there has not been enough testing to conclude how or why somebody came into possession of the skull, but I guess it’s a good thing. It wasn’t dropped off at the Halloween Goodwill at Birch Run; otherwise, it may have been mistakenly purchased as a Halloween prop.