The Investigation
Generally speaking, forensic investigators typically need at least one week to determine who the remains belong to and how they ultimately became remains. These investigators stopped the officer from making the call because they discovered something that practically closed the case.
A False Alarm
The team inspected the skeleton of a life-sized human. However, it was fake. The team concluded that someone must have planted it there as a joke for Halloween and forgot about it. Everyone laughed with relief but it was still puzzling why the dog had warned them about such a situation.