Remains Found At Palisades Interstate Park Are Human Bones: Cops

BERGEN COUNTY, NJ — The human remains found at the Stateline Lookout snack stand in Alpine Monday morning have been identified as human bones, authorities said.

Authorities did not positively identify whose bones they were as of Wednesday night, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said.

Authorities are trying to determine whose bones they were, where they came from, and who left them there.

The bag of bones was found by employees of the Stateline Lookout snack stand in Alpine Monday morning at about 8 a.m., Musella previously said.

They noticed that what was inside the bag appeared to be bones and called the Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department.

Police responded, looked at what was inside the bags, and contacted the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office Cold Case Unit and the Bergen County Medical Examiner's Office to begin an investigation.

Anyone with information related to the investigation is asked to call the Cold Case Unit at 201-226-5500.

The Palisades Interstate Park is a 2,500-acre area along the Hudson River that stretches from lower Rockland County in New York to Edgewater in Bergen County.

Stateline Lookout is a scenic overlook at the highest point on the Palisades cliffs, about half a mile south of the New Jersey-New York state line.

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