A local woman was collecting seashells on a Captiva beach when she found a unique item that appears to be a human jaw bone, officials said.
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call Wednesday evening from Rebecca Dodds’ home in Lehigh Acres Wednesday night, according to an incident report obtained by the USA TODAY Network. Dodds could not immediately be reached for an interview, but she told deputies that she had been collecting shells and didn’t realize she picked up a human mandible until she got home, the report states.
“I thought I found a whalebone or something, and I just threw it in my shell bag,” Dodds told local outlet WINK news . “It’s still surreal right now. It’s kind of disbelief, but at the same time, I’m curious. It’s very sad. I do hope they can find out who. This person has a story,”
LCSO is working with the District 21 Medical Examiner’s Office to try to determine the origin and any other information about the discovery, spokesperson Sarah Rodriguez said.