UPDATE: Jamestown Police said a male fetus found at a construction site in November 2025 was stillborn and was in a jar likely from the 1930s to the 1940s.
Police worked with the Stutsman County Coroner and the North Dakota State Forensic Medical Examiner’s Office in its investigation.
Authorities said the 34-week-old fetus would have been stillborn because of complications of the umbilical cord placement while in its mother’s uterus. They say it’s still unknown why the fetus was put in a jar with preservation fluid at the job site.
Anyone with information regarding the case is asked to call Jamestown Police at 701-252-2414.
By: Ethan Kramer
JAMESTOWN, N.D. (Valley News Live) – Construction workers discovered what police believe are human fetal remains at a job site in southeast Jamestown on Tuesday, November 4.
The construction company called Stutsman County Dispatch at approximately 2:49 p.m. to report they believed they had exhumed the remains while working on a project.
Jamestown Police officers responded to the scene and located what they described as intact fetal remains along with broken pieces of an amber brown glass container.
The Stutsman County Coroner collected and examined the remains. They are being sent to the Medical Examiner’s Office for further investigation.
Police are asking anyone with information about the incident to call the Jamestown Police Department at 701-252-2414.
