PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (WSAZ)--There's new information this morning about the skeletal remains recently found in the Shawnee State Forest.

The Scioto County Sheriff's Department says a state anthropologist has determined the remains are of a Caucasian or Hispanic woman; likely in her late teens or early 20s.

The skeletal remains were found by folks hunting mushrooms.

Investigators have sent DNA samples from Amber Howard, a woman who went missing from the Portsmouth area back in August to a state lab for comparison.

We're told those tests could take several weeks.

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (WSAZ) -- The Scioto County Sheriff says skeletal remains have been found in a wooded area in the county.

The sheriff says the remains, which appear to be human, were found late Monday morning in the Shawnee State Forest by several people hunting mushrooms.

Right now, investigators are attempting to identify the remains along with a cause of death.

Investigators from several local and state police agencies spent several hours processing the scene.

The remains have been turned over to Ohio Bureau of Investigation.

Anyone with information should call the sheriff’s offices at 740-355-8245.