The left and some elements of CIA or former CIA trained know how to distract. For example, if they want to burglarize a location or whack someone, they design a 'throw' which is an incident designed to occur simultaneously somewhere else to 'throw' concerned persons and investigators off the track, to distract from their true goal. This is standard execution for such crooks.
I am not sure what really went down in AZ. The facts are sketchy.
But here are David and Barbara Mikkelson who are 'Snopes' and they are used by the left to set up, frame, mock, shame, castigate, ridicule, discredit those on the right who fall for leftist traps:
They are not qualified and not credible. They are fed a stream of info from leftist liar media and they are paid to 'review' it and then issue a 'debunking'. Then their 'debunking' is quoted by the liar media. It's circular in similar manner to the FBI-Fusion GPS-Liar Media-FBI fake info stream is in obtaining spy warrants. They are a component in designed discrediting cycles, part of the formula the leftist liar media uses to ridicule and discredit the right.
We can be assured that the Mikkelson's know nothing real about a skull found in AZ but they are parroting information given to them. In other words, they are shills for the leftist liar media.
Every time there is a line written: "Snopes says ..." I ignore it, it is irrelevant as the information is 'planted', parroted, cycled through the Mikkelson's as part of the discrediting cycle. Whether the information is true or not, the truth cannot be ascertained from 'Snopes'. They are not credible investigators. Professional investigations take time whereas Snopes will usually parrot information given to them within 1 to 2 days. There is no way they can arrive at informed results on their own in the timeframe they respond. They are liar media bobbleheads, part and parcel to the liar media or entrapment media.