NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – The Glenn County Sheriff's Office is continuing its efforts to identify skeletal human remains found in the Sacramento River last month.

Kayakers found the remains – consisting of the fibia and tibia of a right leg, with an intact Brahma brand boot on the foot – on June 21 south of Hamilton City, as Lake County News has reported.

Glenn County Sheriff Larry Jones said examinations of the remains were conducted on June 25 by forensic pathologist Dr. Thomas K. Resk, M.D. and members of the Chico State Human Identification Laboratory.

Jones said efforts also are being made to track the factory numbers found stamped and attached to the boot in order to discover what store or geographical area the boot may have sold. That process is still ongoing.

On Monday, the area where the skeletal remains were located was searched by cadaver dogs and their handlers, as provided by the Butte County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue Team, Jones said. A Glenn County Sheriff’s patrol boat provided transport and support to the two search members and their K9 partners.

Three hours of methodical searching was conducted approximately 2.5 miles south of the Irvine Finch Park, Jones said.

Det. Kelly Knight reported one dog showed interest in a particular area of the river along the west bank, upstream from where the remains were located. The depth at that location is such that it was necessary to conduct an underwater search.

Det. Knight, who also is a member of the Sheriff’s Dive Team, along with two other members of the team, conducted an underwater search of that particular area on Thursday, supported by the Glenn County Sheriff’s river patrol boats and operators. Jones said the underwater search yielded no results.

With the Human I.D. Laboratory completing its work, the skeletal remains have now been transferred to the State Department of Justice Crime Lab, arriving there on Friday, Jones said.

He said the state crime lab will extract and process DNA from the remains, then match the DNA against known samples in DNA databases. The I.D. Laboratory report from the University is yet not completed, he added.

No further information has been forthcoming regarding this case and thus far the information gained has not matched any known missing person cases for the area, Jones said.

The Glenn County Sheriff’s Office continues to investigate, and anyone with information – no matter how remote – is asked to contact Det. Kelly Knight at 530-934-6721.

Callers who wish to remain anonymous may call the Sheriff’s Secret Witness line at 530-934-6627.