Expert: Victim was beaten

State News

November 21, 2009

Anonymous The Register-Herald Sat Nov 21, 2009, 11:10 PM EST

PARSONS — A forensic anthropologist says the person buried near the home of a woman who disappeared seven years ago had been severely beaten.

At a preliminary hearing for the man charged with concealing that body, Douglas Owsley of the Smithsonian Institution said the victim had skull fractures, broken ribs and a broken collar bone.

Owsley says the victim has not yet been identified.

The remains were found under an outbuilding behind the home of 35-year-old Bonnie Woods-Cale, who vanished in March 2002.

Her husband, 42-year-old Wesley Scott Cale of Parsons, is charged with concealing a body. He was being held at the Tygart Valley Regional Jail.

State Police say Cale’s son reported seeing his half brother digging where the remains were found.

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