Skeleton Scares Suspects Into Surrendering

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MIAMI (Reuters) - Three Florida fugitives scrambled into an attic to elude police but surrendered when they found a human skeleton in their hideaway, police said on Tuesday.

The two men and a woman were wanted on probation violation charges and climbed into the attic to hide when police tracked them to an apartment building in Daytona Beach on Monday, police Sgt. Al Tolley said.

Police searched the apartment and noticed a hatch leading to an attic above a second-story bedroom, and opened it. One of the suspects called out, "Get me out of here. There's a dead body up here," Tolley said.

The three were arrested and investigators were still trying to identify the skeletal remains. The apartment's tenant told police she had lived there about three months and had noted a foul odor but could not locate the source.