Utah officials are working to find out whose remains were discovered in a West Valley City canal earlier this week.
On Sunday, a woman called West Valley City police to report that her children had spotted what appeared to be a shoe with a bone sticking out of it while playing at a canal near 2700 South and 2500 West, according to a Friday news release from police.
The woman told police that said her children — who had been with a group of kids ages 5 to 13 — had spotted the remains a week earlier, but had only just told her about it that day.
When police arrived at the canal, they saw human remains caught in a debris pile in the middle of the canal where it goes under Interstate 215 and feeds into Decker Lane, according to the release.
A dive team recovered the remains of what appears to be a man early Monday morning, the release said. The remains were taken to state medical examiners, who are working to find a DNA match as well as an approximate height and age range.
A team of detectives and cadaver dogs “ran the length of the canal” Wednesday “in an attempt to find any other remains,” the release said, but did not find anything else.
No additional information was available, according to police.