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Police in Alabama are investigating the murder of an unknown man after two mutts were found playing with a human skull with a pair of bullet holes.
Paulina Mejia, a 21-year-old new mom, told the Post that her mixed-breed puppies Chicharrón and Chichareen dragged the skull home, saying, “There was still hair on it, so it was a little disgusting.” She gave birth to her daughter Meilani.
“There were still some teeth left. There were only a few people in the front row,” Mejia added. “this [man was killed] I'd say it's recent. Because within the past year, there was still a strong odor in the skull. ”
And the crime-solving canine was never completed.
On Dec. 12, “the same dog was found with long bones in the front yard of the same residence,” said Jefferson County Coroner Bill Yates.
“I saw it [Chicharrón] “I was playing with something, but I didn't know what it was,” Mejia said. “A woman driving by saw him fiddling with bones near the road and stopped her car. She called 911, and by the time I noticed there were police everywhere.”
The dogs eventually found what turned out to be the left tibia, or shin bone.
Mejia said the bones were “relatively clean” compared to the skull found in August.
Police searched nearby vacant homes and examined doorbell camera footage, but found few clues as to where the dog had wandered.
“There must be a body in the bushes here,” Mejia said, noting the area is surrounded by forest. There is also a closed school not far from his home.
Yates' office created a DNA profile from the skull, which found a match in CODIS, a national database that compares DNA samples collected from crime scenes with DNA samples taken from convicted criminals. There wasn't.
They are currently trying to determine if the tibia is from the same victim, but testing will not take place until March.
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The coroner said they were working with the Mejias and other neighbors to better understand where the dog was wandering and to determine where the bones came from.
Tracking devices were installed in Chicharine last week, giving authorities “data on which areas the dog frequents,” Yates told The Post in an email. That way, “future searches using cadaver dogs will be fruitful.''
By Friday, the third bone had not been found by the dogs.
Mejia said he is proud of his dog.
“It might help solve crimes,” she says. “We don't see many missing persons reported in this area, so we hope the police will work with us to solve this problem.”
