New Mexico Department of Transportation workers came upon a grisly discovery Wednesday morning when they found some human skeletal remains on east 66 at the Mile Marker 26 underpass.
Those remains turned out to be an arm that Gallup Police Department Capt. Rick White said likely belong to a body that was discovered last year with missing arms.
The body was discovered about 100 yards from where the arm was located, on Dec. 5, 2014, and was indentified as Tyrone Wauneka from Chruchrock. He was reported missing by family members on Oct. 29, 2014.
The case is still under investigation, White said.
White also said that the arm is being sent to the Office of the Medical Investigator for DNA comparison.
