Homi­cide in­ves­ti­ga­tors have yet to de­ter­mine whether the skele­tal re­mains, found be­ing gnawed by a dog, be­long to mur­dered Siparia grand­moth­er Joanne Estick.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said a sam­ple of the re­mains will be sent for DNA test­ing to con­firm the iden­ti­ty.

Estick, 60, trag­i­cal­ly lost her life in a grue­some mur­der. Her sev­ered head was dis­cov­ered on March 13, placed in­side a cool­er and left in a green bag by the road­side in Sen­non Vil­lage, Siparia.

Po­lice said that around 5.30 pm Thurs­day, a Siparia man cy­cling along the Pe­nal-Quinam Road no­ticed a dog chew­ing on a bone ap­prox­i­mate­ly five feet from the road­way in near­by bush­es. Sus­pi­cious, he ap­proached and was hor­ri­fied to dis­cov­er a hu­man skele­ton miss­ing the skull.

The man im­me­di­ate­ly alert­ed of­fi­cers from the Pe­nal Po­lice Sta­tion.

When Po­lice Con­sta­bles Chaitram­s­ingh and Ram­dass ar­rived at the scene, they found the skele­ton, miss­ing both the skull and feet. The up­per and low­er halves of the skele­ton were po­si­tioned in op­po­site di­rec­tions and pur­ple un­der­wear was on it.

News of the head­less skele­ton ig­nit­ed spec­u­la­tion that it could be the re­mains of Estick, who was last seen alive walk­ing through Sen­non Vil­lage on March 12. De­spite ex­ten­sive search­es by the South West­ern Di­vi­sion po­lice and the Hunters Search and Res­cue Team, led by Cap­tain Val­lence Ramb­harat, her body has not been found.

Two sus­pects, an un­cle and nephew, have been charged in con­nec­tion with her mur­der. Michael Ed­wards, 44, was ar­rest­ed in late March, fol­lowed by Ryan “Gangy” Ed­wards in ear­ly April.