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Ajax9/Getty Images/iStockphotoWhen a Central Texas family's dog kept coming home with bones, the homeowners didn't think anything was out of the norm. That was until one day when the dog brought back something that had the police investigating the findings.
On Thursday, February 9, at around 5:45 p.m., a Luling family reached out to the Luling Police Department after their dog brought a human skull to the family's backyard, according to a social media post.
A Hackberry Avenue homeowner told police that the family dog had been bringing bones back to the yard for nearly a week. The homeowner would just collect the bones in "a plastic bag thinking they were bones from an animal," according to the post.
Police said that due to the proximity to a "high-profile missing person case in Caldwell County," the Attorney General's Office was informed of the remains. MySA reached out to Caldwell County to get more information on the missing person case.
Photos of the remains were sent to the Attorney General's Office, but they ruled out the remains belonging to the high-profile missing person case, according to the post.
An update to the social media post on Saturday, February 11, stated that the Caldwell County Office of Emergency Management, with help from Texas Search and Rescue, found the rest of the "skeletal remains" in an abandoned structure near the Hackberry Avenue home.
Police said that the incident is still under investigation, but the scene "does not look suspicious in nature." Also, the sex and race of the remains were unknown at the time of the post. The remains will be submitted to the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification.
