The search for more evidence is being expanded after a human skull was found near Vernon earlier this week.

Local Search and Rescue volunteers are searching for more remains or other evidence in a larger area around the spot the skull was found on April 26. The skull was discovered by hikers on the Okanagan Indian Band Reserve lands west of Vernon.

Gord Molendyk with the Vernon RCMP says the skull will be turned over to a forensic anthropologist and a forensic odontologist in Prince George Wednesday.

“Investigators hope that these examinations will lead to determining the ethnicity, gender and approximate age of the victim. This information will then assist investigators in their efforts to make an identity of the victim by examining the outstanding missing person’s cases currently on file,” says Molendyk.

Link: Human skull found in Vernon Link: Skull likely that of female