Remains not McAndrew: police

Investigators say they have not yet identified skeletal remains found off Highway 101 in Nova Scotia earlier this month but they can rule out certain missing persons.

For example, the bones are not those of a 19-year-old woman who disappeared 13 years ago. Kimberly McAndrew, and other high-profile missing persons in the Halifax area, have been eliminated as possible matches with the remains.

Investigators say they have been studying the partial skeleton "tooth by tooth" in an effort to determine who it is.

Workers twinning Highway 101 discovered the remains of a human skeleton on June 13 near Windsor.

The bones were covered in moss and leaves from the neck down, but did not appeared to be buried. There was no flesh on the bones, nor any sign of clothing or shoes.

Since then, police have been going through long lists of missing people and have checked a national database.