The skeletal remains were found during the process of moving the now-shuttered medical examiner's office to the state Department of Safety and Homeland Security's new Division of Forensic Sciences, agency spokeswoman Kimberly Chandler said. Lawmakers abolished the medical examiner's office, which closed in February, after its chief was targeted in a criminal investigation and fired for misconduct amid an evidence-tampering scandal. The forgotten remains come on top of revelations about sloppy and lax procedures at the drug lab of the medical examiner's office, where there were more than 50 thefts of drug evidence between 2010 and this February, which compromised hundreds of prosecutions. Delaware Public Defender Brendan O'Neill said the recently found remains call into question all of the work that was done by the medical examiner's office, including autopsies, toxicology tests and DNA tests.