LILLIAN — Law enforcement officials are investigating human remains that were discovered in Lillian this week.

Neighbors along Route Road contacted the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office Monday to report that they found skeletal remains.

According to Sheriff’s Officer Eric Winberg, officers arrived at the scene at 9 p.m. Monday, confirming that the bones were human remains.

“They held the scene until the next morning,” he said in a phone interview.

Then on Tuesday morning, officers processed the bones as evidence and turned them over to the Baldwin County Coroner’s Office, who subsequently submitted them to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciene in Mobile, Winberg said.

Because the case remains under investigation, no further information was available at press time.

BCSO officials have so far not confirmed whether or not the remains could be those of missing Mobile County teen mom Brittney Wood, who was last heard from in the Styx River area in May.

More than 200 volunteers, including rescue squads from Escambia County in Florida and Monroe, Mobile and Baldwin counties in Alabama, turned out to the Rosinton Fire Station June 6 and 7 to help search for the teen, who was reported missing on June 2.

According to her parents, she left their Tillman’s Corner home on May 30 and said she was going to a friend’s house. When they had not heard from her by June 2, they called and reported her missing.

Wood’s family members reported her last cell phone transmission was located less than a mile away from her uncle’s home in the Styx River area. Concern escalated when the uncle, Donald Holland Sr., was found dead at his Fairhope home about a week later of an apparent self-inflicted gun-shot wound.

Volunteers conducted a two-day search with the help of California-based organization KlaasKIDS Foundation, combing an area within a five-mile radius of the uncle’s home. The group has since conducted additional searches in both Mobile and Baldwin counties, but no new evidence has been reported in the case.

In the months since, six of Wood’s family members have been arrested in an ongoing sexual abuse investigation.

Independent Editor John Underwood contributed to this article.