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Police work to identify skeletal remains found in Caribou

Police work to identify skeletal remains found in Caribou

Photo: 560 WGAN Newsradio


A passerby found human remains over the weekend in Caribou, where a man went missing in 2019.

Maine State Police say the body was found off Route 161 by a man who was walking in the woods on Sunday. Investigators were working Monday to recover the skeletal remains.

The remains will be taken to the medical examiner’s office to determine identity and cause and manner of death.

31-year-old Kurtis Madore went missing in the Caribou area on June 2nd, 2019.

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