UPPER LAKE – Lake County Sheriff's detectives are investigating the discovery of human remains made in the Upper Lake area earlier this month.

The partial remains of what appeared to be a human were found Feb. 3, according to Capt. James Bauman of the Lake County Sheriff's Office.

An Upper Lake resident hiking off of Clover Valley Road came upon the remains and reported them to the sheriff's office, Bauman said.

The sheriff's Major Crimes Unit put together a small team to hike into the area, which Bauman said has some “very rough terrain.”

At the bottom of a steep rise they found some bones that they believed to be human, Bauman said. In the immediate area, they also found a shirt and one shoe which he said appear to belong to an adult male.

Bauman said the sheriff's office has no pending missing persons cases for that area.

Investigators also aren't currently speculating about how long the remains have been there, Bauman said.

However, he added that a forensic examination will take place in an effort to determine more about the bones and identify the individual to whom they belonged.

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