Human remains found on 24th Street

Neighbors were shocked but had their suspicions after police found a bag of human bones buried in a nearby apartments backyard Friday morning in the 5800 block of 24th Street.

Jaime Tello and Lee DeVaughn watched from their porches across a West Lubbock apartment complex as investigators set up lights in preparation for continued digging and forensic examination through the night.

Nobody expected this around here, Tello said after maintenance workers conducting a routine welfare check of the sewage lines at Lubbock Chaparral Apartments dug up the bag.

Capt. Jon Caspell of the Lubbock Police Department confirmed investigators determined the bones are human, but knew little else by Friday afternoon.

Tello and DeVaughn said apartment residents believed the remains presence in the complex triggered memories of a murder two decades ago in the same block.

There are no identified suspects tied to the human remains, Caspell said, but their discovery could shed light on an old murder case.

We wont know exactly whose remains were found, but we have a pretty good idea of what direction this will lead us, Caspell said.

But Caspell would not confirm Friday afternoon if police suspected the remains were those of a 24-year-old Lubbock man missing from an apartment in the same block since 1991.

Lubbock County jurors in 1997 determined Robert Scott Dunn was bludgeoned to death some time after he was last seen on May 31 of 91, convicting his live-in girlfriend of murder despite investigators failing to locate a body, according to previous articles in The Avalanche-Journal.

Investigators found Dunns blood in the apartment and evidence much more had been cleaned up enough blood that they believed Dunn was dead.

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Human remains found on 24th Street