07-14-2012, 05:21 AM
Here is the latest Zahra update. It is just breaking in the news in the last few hours here in Oz.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breakin...6426073055
IT may be October before police can confirm whether a small human skull found in woods in the US state of North Carolina belongs to murdered Australian schoolgirl Zahra Baker.
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) and the medical examiner have decided to send the skull to a lab out of the state to run tests on it, the Hickory Daily Record reports.
"The SBI and the state medical examiner decided to send it to a specialist because with the procedures they had available, they were unable to do the appropriate tests," Clyde Deal, deputy chief of police with the Hickory Police Department, told the newspaper.
Officials were hoping to have the results from the tests in 90 days, he said.
The skull was found by a turkey hunter on April 17 in Caldwell County, not far from Hickory, the North Carolina town where Zahra, 10, lived with her biological father Adam and American stepmother Elisa.
Elisa pleaded guilty last September to murdering and dismembering Zahra in 2010 and while she led authorities to some dumped body parts, Zahra's skull was never found.
Elisa was sentenced to a maximum 18.5 years jail for the horrific murder.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breakin...6426073055
IT may be October before police can confirm whether a small human skull found in woods in the US state of North Carolina belongs to murdered Australian schoolgirl Zahra Baker.
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) and the medical examiner have decided to send the skull to a lab out of the state to run tests on it, the Hickory Daily Record reports.
"The SBI and the state medical examiner decided to send it to a specialist because with the procedures they had available, they were unable to do the appropriate tests," Clyde Deal, deputy chief of police with the Hickory Police Department, told the newspaper.
Officials were hoping to have the results from the tests in 90 days, he said.
The skull was found by a turkey hunter on April 17 in Caldwell County, not far from Hickory, the North Carolina town where Zahra, 10, lived with her biological father Adam and American stepmother Elisa.
Elisa pleaded guilty last September to murdering and dismembering Zahra in 2010 and while she led authorities to some dumped body parts, Zahra's skull was never found.
Elisa was sentenced to a maximum 18.5 years jail for the horrific murder.