Dec. 17--San Francisco police are continuing their investigation into last month's discovery of human remains found in a planter box.
A resident made the discovery Nov. 23 while gardening, police said. The resident brought the bones to the San Francisco Police Department's Northern Station, and a report was filed, said Grace Gatpandan, a public information officer.
The San Francisco Medical Examiner's Office later determined the bones were human, Gatpandan said. Cadaver dogs from the Marin County Sheriff's Department searched the area -- the 1300 block of McAllister Street -- and indicated that more human remains may be present, police said.
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Authorities excavated the area where the dogs alerted, but no additional remains were found, Gatpandan said.
KGO-TV spoke with the woman who said she found the first bone and who said the planter boxes were put on the porch by a tenant in 2007. A couple of weeks ago, she told the station, she was going to save the plants and throw out the boxes and that's when she found a human bone in the soil.
While one media outlet reported the bones belonged to a child, police and the medical examiner's office would not confirm that information.
"At this point, the investigation is still ongoing," Gatpandan said.
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