MOSINEE, Wis. (AP) - A report of a possible human body buried in the back yard of a home led investigators to find some small bones and bone fragments, Police Chief Ken Muelling said.
The bones will be tested to determine whether they are animal or human, he said Wednesday.
Tuesday's excavation was based on information received from investigators in Minnesota, Muelling said, declining to elaborate.
Joshua Seider, who lives at the home where the digging occurred, told the Wausau Daily Herald that he was told by police that the brother of a previous resident stayed there for a week four years ago.
The brother, now 17, told police in Chisholm, Minn., that he killed someone with a baseball bat and buried the body in the yard in 2004, Seider said.
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Seider does not have a listed telephone number and could not be reached Thursday.
Chisholm Police Chief Scott Erickson said his officers were cooperating with Mosinee police but he declined to say what prompted the excavation.
"Nothing has been substantiated. To say anything would be very premature," Erickson said. "It could be a hoax."
Erickson told The Associated Press his agency was not looking for any missing people.
Dave Bjerga, assistant superintendent for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said that agency wasn't involved.
