Skeletal remains found at vacant home in Gary, Lake County Coroner's Office says

GARY, Ind. (WLS) -- Skeletal remains were found Friday in the garage of a vacant home in northwest Indiana.

The discovery was made around 2:45 p.m. in the 2600 block of Jefferson Street in Gary, the Lake County Coroner's Office said.

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Investigators from the Lake County Coroner's Office were called to a home at the location to recover skeletal remains.

Gary police said workers hired to clean a vacant home found the remains under some rubbish in the garage.

The age, sex and race of the deceased person were not yet known.

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The Gary Police Department, Lake County CSI and the Lake County Prosecutor's Homicide Task Force are involved in the investigation, the Lake County Coroner's Office said.

"If you have a loved one missing, please make a formal report, make sure to include, a recent photo, height, hair color, weight, identifiers, what clothing they were last seen wearing and size," a news release from the Lake County Coroner's Office read in part.