Students move out, but leave human skull behind

[June 19, 2008]  PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Police say some students who moved out of an apartment near the University of Pennsylvania cleared it out down to the bare bones. An assistant manager who cleaned up found a human skull on the kitchen counter.

Police don't know which of the seven students who lived in the West Philadelphia apartment left the skull behind.

Authorities say there is no indication any crime has occurred, but Lt. Frank Vanore says even for police it is "kind of a weird story."

Vanore says the skull may have been a learning tool for medical students. Or it may have been left as a prank.

Spokesman Jeff Moran of the Philadelphia Medical Examiner's Office says a forensic anthropologist will check out the abandoned bone to see if he can learn more.

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Information from: The Philadelphia Inquirer, http://www.philly.com/

[Associated Press]

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