Update: 2 Human Skulls Found at Stamford Refuse Transfer Station Came from Fairfield Home

By Barbara Heins (Patch Staff)

Update: 4:25 p.m.

Stamford Police are investigating whether the two human skulls found at the city’s transfer station on Thursday where dumped there by a hauling company hired to remove the contents of a Fairfield home.

Transfer station employees found the skulls in a load dumped by a truck from Junkluggers. When the truck returned hours later and found several Stamford Police officers sifting through the load for clues, he driver reportedly told a transfer station employee that he didn’t believe they were real because they were placed in a recycling bin at the Fairfield home he was hired to haul away various items.

According to Lt. Diedrich Hohn, the hauler was hired by a 91-year-old Fairfield man who was cleaning out the room of his recently deceased son who was a fan of the occult. Hohn said the son, who was in his 50s, suffered from mental illness and apparently bought the skulls — one of which was a man, the other a woman — from a catalog. The skulls are being analyzed by the state medical examiner’s office.

“At this time, we don’t believe this is criminal in nature,” Hohn said.

Original story: 9:06 a.m.

Stamford Police are investigating the macabre discovery of two human skulls at the Stamford Refuse Transfer Station on Halloween Eve.

According to police, a worker who was sifting through the refuse in the course of his duties found the two human skulls at the transfer station at 1 Pumping Station Rd. at approximately 1:23 p.m. Oct. 30. Workers called Stamford Police and investigators from the Detective Bureau closed off the area and documented it as a crime scene, according to police.

Officers secured two skulls that were later to be determined human in nature by the state medical examiner’s office. Officers searching the area where the skulls were discovered and found a mandible and several books on satan and witchcraft, police said.

The remains were transported to the State’s Medical Examiner’s Office Friday morning for further examination, police said. “At this point we are trying to determine the origin of where the remains came from, possible cause of death, and how they ended up at the transfer station,” police said in a statement.

Police are asking if anyone has any information on the remains that they contact the Stamford Police Detective Bureau at 203-977-4417.

Check back for updates.

Photo: courtesy of Stamford Police.

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