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Human Remains Found At Acadia National Park, Could Be Missing Maine Man

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By NPT Staff - April 16th, 2016

The Maine medical examiner has been asked to identify human remains found near Parkman Mountain in Acadia National Park/Google Earth

Remains found in Acadia National Park on Friday could be those of a Maine man who went missing in January, according to park officials.

Members of a volunteer search and rescue team found the remains near Parkman Mountain. They were recovered by rangers and members of the Mount Desert Island Search and Rescue team and taken to the Maine Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Augusta to determine the identity and cause of death of the individual.

Rangers have been searching off and on for 50-year-old Timothy Philpott, of Ellsworth, whose car was found on January 13 at the Parkman Mountain parking area located off Route 198 in Mount Desert. At the time rangers conducted a hasty search that day, followed by a large-scale search of the area around Parkman and Sargent mountains the next two days.

Heavy snowfall led to the search being suspended January 16, and since then rangers have looked for the man as conditions allowed. Aiding in the effort were the Maine Search and Rescue Dogs (MESARD), Mount Desert Island Search and Rescue (MDISAR), Maine Association for Search and Rescue, Maine Warden Service, and Maine Forest Service.

On Friday morning, three members of MESARD using three trained search dogs were searching an area of the park that had not been covered. At approximately 11 a.m., one of the search dogs alerted on a backpack that was found 40 feet downslope from the Around Mountain carriage road in a heavily forested area northwest of Parkman Mountain. The other two search dog teams moved to this location to broaden the search. At approximately 2:45 p.m., a search dog alerted on human remains, which were located 170 feet downslope from the location of the backpack.

The NPS obtained permission from the Maine chief medical examiner to remove the human remains, and then organized a recovery with the assistance of MDISAR.The human remains were recovered at 6 p.m. and immediately transported to the MOCME.

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