HARRISONBURG — The discovery of unidentified human bones in the Catahoula Parish woods has prompted the creation of a new federal database.

Sheriff James Kelly said the FBI has created an e-mail data bank linking investigators to dentists and orthodontists in the area.

Dental reports from the skull of a young girl whose body was found by a hunter Oct. 8 have been shared with dentists and orthodontists in all neighboring states.

No match has been made yet, Kelly said, though the e-mail did elicit a returned phone call from a Brookhaven doctor who promised to spread the word.

“We continue to have the FBI, the State Police and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children working with us,” Kelly said. “Every resource that is available to us is on it.”

The case has been labeled a “suspicious death” because, in part, no children in the area have been reported missing.

Kelly said law enforcement doesn’t yet want to divulge the cause of death for fear of hindering their investigation.

“There is a lot we’ve been doing,” he said. “We just haven’t had a match.

“We were sure hoping that by this point we would know.”

The remains were sent to the LSU Forensic Anthropology and Computer Enhancement Services Laboratory where Director Mary Manhein said she believes the girl to be between the ages of 12 to 16, 5-feet-four-inches tall or shorter and with thick, brown hair.

Manhein also said the remains had been in the woods anywhere from a few weeks to several months.

The teen had braces with pink bands on the top row of her teeth.

Anyone with information about the remains is asked to call the Catahoula Sheriff’s Office at 318-744-5411.