Updated: 8:41 a.m. July 04, 2009

Gwinnett County police, state trying to identify skeleton

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Investigators are trying to identify the skeletal remains of a man found in some Gwinnett County woods near Georgia 316, police spokesman Cpl. David Schiralli said Tuesday.

The cause of death also remains a mystery.

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Schiralli said employees of a tree service were working in some woods near the Barrow County line Monday morning when they found the scattered bones.

Gwinnett police said in a news release dental records indicated, however, that the remains are not of Justin Gaines, who disappeared November 2007. Gaines, an 18-year-old student at the Oconee County campus of Gainesville College, when a friend dropped him off at Wild Bill’s nightclub in Duluth late on Nov. 1, 2007. A few hours later, around 2 a.m. on Nov. 2, 2007, he called several friends, unsuccessfully trying to find someone to give him a ride home.

No one spoke to him after those early-morning phone calls.

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