Police baffled by body on side of the road

The discovery of a child’s skeletal remains in a town of 200 people has baffled police as they admitted the body had been left untouched by the side of a road for a “very, very long time”.

The gender of the child whose remains were dumped in a suitcase in the South Australian bush is still unknown, but police have already been able to rule out 10 potential victims.

The bones were discovered alongside a suitcase and clothes off the Karoonda Highway near Wynarka, in the state’s south east, on July 15.