State crime lab studies body parts from field.(General News)(Testing: Identification will be difficult because farm equipment cut up and scattered the human remains.)

The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) | September 7, 2002 | Copyright

Byline: REBECCA NOLAN The Register-Guard

HARRISBURG - Investigators are struggling to identify hundreds of tiny human body parts culled from a grass seed field in Harrisburg last week.

It was a grim harvest as 15 workers from the Linn County sheriff's office and a dozen more from Washington County combed the field off Peoria Road near American Drive for four days, looking for bone fragments and other remains.

They crawled on hands and knees, shoulder to shoulder, digging through the dirt in 90-degree temperatures, Linn County Undersheriff Tim ...

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