Human remains found in woods about 12 feet off a Pleasant Hill sidewalk across the road from Liberty High School had been there "a few months," Osceola County Sheriff Marcos Lopez reported Wednesday.
The Sheriff's Department forensics team was in the process of collecting it all, and sampling the remains and their DNA at a lab could take a couple weeks in order to identify the remains. There were no immediate answers Wednesday.
"It could be a transient, it could be a missing person, we don't know," Lopez said. "We don't know if it's male or female. We're investigating it as we speak."
He went on to say that the discovery would be treated as suspicious, "Until it's not."
Lopez said his agency received a call around 9:45 Wednesday morning from a person who said they stumbled onto a skull and bones, along with personal items, in the woods while waiting at a bus stop on Pleasant Hill Road just north of Poinciana Boulevard. It's unclear why the person ventured in woods, speculation is that they went to go to the bathroom.
