Life in the boneyard

Kinda creepy this morning, but we have two stories of unidentified human bones being found. First, on Milwaukee's North Side, where stepping over bodies is becoming commonplace:

Workers dug up some bones in a yard at 49th and Fiebrantz on Milwaukee's north side Monday afternoon.

Police said the homeowner was having some contract work done in his back yard. The workers found a black plastic bag with some bones in it about 1 foot underground.

Then out to East Troy,

Investigators with the Walworth County Sheriff's Department are looking into some bones found last week.

Recreational divers notified the department that they had found bones in Lake Beulah in East Troy.

Those bones were recovered by the sheriff's department dive team and later identified as human bones.

The case is being treated as a death investigation, the department said.

I'm glad the sheriff's department clarified that they are investigating a death. I'd hate to think the human bones were merely a case of recovered lost property.

Update! A second set of bones were found at 49th and Fiebrantz. The kiling fields of the North Side just took a more literal meaning.