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Box Of Bones Found In Hudson Shed

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Relatives of the late Otto Ullrich called the sheriff's office after they found a box of bones in a shed on his property.

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By GEOFF FOX | The Tampa Tribune

Published: July 4, 2008

HUDSON - A box containing what appeared to be human remains was found Friday in a storage shed at 13029 Buoy Court, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said.

The sheriff's office was called around noon by the family of Otto Ullrich, who died last year, sheriff's spokesman Doug Tobin said. He said Ullrich lived in New Jersey and Pasco, but that the Buoy Court property was not Ullrich's primary residence.

Tobin said the bones were found in a box that appeared to have been at the residence for "a considerable amount of time."

"We don't know where the bones came from," he said. "This is not a homicide investigation. More than likely it will take some time to determine how old the bones are and what exactly we're looking at. They do appear to be human, but the question is: How old are they?"

The remains were found by Ullrich's nephews as they were cleaning the property, which he owned, Tobin said. Ullrich was in his 80s when he died and had no criminal history. A cadaver search was conducted on the property, but no other remains were found.

The Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner's Office, which removed the bones Friday afternoon, will try to identify the remains and establish a cause of death.

"Right now we don't have any of [Ullrich's] relatives missing," Tobin said. "It could just be a case of a person who collected artifacts or something."

Reporter Geoff Fox can be reached at (813) 779-4613 or gfox@tampatrib.com.

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