Lab can't tell if skull is missing hiker's

Forensic examiners can't determine whether a partial human skull found in the Wind River Range belonged to a hiker who went missing in 2007. Fremont County Coroner Ed McAuslan says the skull sent to a lab in Salt Lake City was too aged and weathered, and scientists couldn't extract DNA. He had hoped to match it to the remains of 46-year-old Lander resident Clay Rubano, who disappeared five years ago while hiking near the Popo Agie (poh-POH'-jah) River. The skull was found last summer about a mile from where other human remains previously were found and identified as Rubano's. McAuslan says based on that proximity, the skull is most likely Rubano's. Evidence suggests Rubano may have fallen and suffered hypothermia. The skull has been turned over to the man's family.