RIO DE JANEIRO -- Police in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo are baffled by a
macabre puzzle: someone has been leaving gift-wrapped human skulls
around town.
Nobody thought much about the locked metal cabinet in the medical school at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. It was another forgotten fixture in the anatomy department -- until a researcher last year found seven skulls with yellowing labels indicating the remains were those of Native Americans from California's Central Coast.
ORLANDO, Fla. -- At first, it appeared to be a discovery with sinister implications: Two skulls unearthed by a swimming pool contractor in a Winter Garden, Fla., neighborhood.
Now, the human remains are the focus of an archaeological mystery.
FARMINGTON — Prosecutors have chosen not to take on the U.S. Constitution in a case of a priest accused of possessing two human skulls in a shed behind his Clearfield home.