Police and the medical examiner return to Baker’s Lake Nature Preserve along East Dundee Road in Barrington on February 27 to conduct a secondary search after human remains were found by a visitor in a wooded area of the forest preserve on February 14. | Photos: Nick Rusin
By Sam Borcia | Lake & McHenry County Scanner
Officials say investigators have recovered more human skeletal remains just under two weeks after a visitor found remains in a wooded area at Baker’s Lake Nature Preserve in Barrington.
The Cook County Forest Preserves Police Department responded around 2:25 p.m. on February 14 to Baker’s Lake Nature Preserve in Barrington.
A visitor of the forest preserve reported finding possible human skeletal remains, according to Forest Preserves of Cook County Communications Manager Stacina Stagner.
Police responded and confirmed the human skeletal remains were in a wooded area at Baker’s Lake, Stagner said.
The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office was notified and responded to the scene to take possession of the remains.
Police and the medical examiner are working to identify human remains found by a visitor in a wooded area of Baker’s Lake Nature Preserve along East Dundee Road in Barrington on February 14. Additional remains were found on February 27 during a second search. | Photo: Google Street View
Stagner said in an update on Wednesday that the Forest Preserves Police coordinated and led a second search at the site on February 27 in relation to the same case to locate any possible additional skeletal remains.
The February 27 search was to expand the search area to account for the possibility that environmental factors, such as weather or wildlife, could have caused relocation of any remains.
Additional remains were located and turned over to the medical examiner’s office.
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