WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah — An investigation is underway after a fisherman found human remains near a golf course in West Valley City.
Police said they received a call just after 7 p.m. from a man who found the remains while fishing. It happened near 4220 Lake Park Blvd., an area comprised of office buildings and the Stone Bridge Golf Club, with streams and ponds running between them.
Phillip Morfin, the man who found the remains, spoke with FOX 13 News.
He said he was fishing in the channel that leads to the "big pond" when he saw something strange in the mud several feet from the shore.
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He said it looked like a skull, but he initially thought it belonged to an animal. But then he used his fishing rod to turn it over, and he saw eye sockets.
“There’s no mistaking what I saw. It was a human skull in the mud," Morfin said.
Officers with the West Valley City Police Department responded and confirmed that the remains belonged to a human.
A state medical examiner is expected to respond to figure out any additional information, such as the person's ID.
Morfin said the other remains appeared to be two femur bones and a smaller bone — possibly an arm.
"We have a missing person out here; we just don't know who it is, you know?" he said. "I don't know who it could be. I have no idea — I just found a skull."
FOX 13 News has a crew at the scene and will update this breaking news story as we learn more.
