The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified the owner of a skull found near a San Antonio plumbing business this month, but the manner of death is unknown.
The medical examiner identified the deceased as Austin Thomas Wyrosdick, according to the San Antonio Express-News.
The skull was found outside Harrell Commercial Plumbing by an employee at around 1:30 p.m. Sept. 15.
“I saw what looked like a dried cantaloupe or something. I picked it up, and the bottom part of the jaw stayed on the ground. When I turned it over and saw the teeth, I was like, ‘Oh my God,’” Walter Stephens told San Antonio’s KSAT-TV.
He told San Antonio’s KENS that the skull, bleached white with no tissue remaining, wasn’t near the business earlier in the day.
San Antonio Police Department officers said in a report that other small bones, including a human jawbone, were found nearby, according to the Express-News.
The owner of the business speculates that another person or an animal moved the skull and other remains to a creek behind the business.
“Either someone picked it up and dropped it off there, or some type of animal moved it. It wasn’t knee-high grass where you’re cutting the grass and are like, ‘Whoa, hey there it is,’” Brad Harrell, vice president of the company, told KSAT.
Authorities are investigating the circumstances and manner of Mr. Wyrosdick’s death. Police are treating it as an “apparent sudden death,” according to the Express-News.
