Forest find was just sheep bones

An examination of old bones found in a Hawke's Bay forest last weekend has ended hopes they might represent a breakthrough in historic missing person cases.
The bones, found wrapped in a T-shirt near Te Haroto, a short distance off the Napier-Taupo road, were found to have to come from sheep.
Napier CIB head Detective Senior Sergeant Nick Reid said it wasn't the first time old animal bones had been referred to police as being possibly human.
Each time, it raised hopes of breakthroughs in cases such as the disappearance of teenager Mona Blades while hitchhiking on between Taupo and Napier on May 31, 1975.