“Following an extensive forensic investigation, the (N.C. State Bureau of Investigation) has positively identified the ...

The skull was discovered Jan. 23, as a hiker walking in a wooded area off Burrell Mountain near Brevard, the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office said in a Feb. 12 news release. U.S. Department ...

The skull was discovered Jan. 23 as a hiker walked near Burrell Mountain, about a 130-mile drive west from Charlotte, the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office said in a Feb. 12 news release.