‘It’s really weird;’ Man finds human remains while replacing porch on Greene County property

XENIA TOWNSHIP, Greene County — A man found human remains while working on renovations at a house in Greene County Tuesday afternoon.

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As reported on News Center 7 at 11:00, the investigation started around 2:30 p.m. in the area of U.S. 68 and Clifton Road in Xenia Township.

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Chris Frisby said his friends recently bought the house, and he’s been staying here to help with renovations.

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“I was going to re-deck the front porch, so I had to take the old deck off and when I did, I started discovering things,” Frisby said.

Frisby shared a photo of what appeared to be a jawbone with two teeth to News Center 7.

“I was on video chat with one of my ex-girlfriends who was in the medical field, and I said, ‘Man, this feels human,’” Frisby said. “That’s when I contacted the property owner and let them know what was going on.”

Greene County Coroner Kevin Sharrett told News Center 7 that the homeowners contacted authorities as soon as they found out about the discovery.

“They stopped what they were doing and they notified the authorities, who called us to come out to the scene, and in fact, the homeowner did discover human remains under their front porch,” Sharrett said.

Sharrett said his office worked with the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office to confirm that at least some of the bones found were human.

Texas Equusearch responded to the scene to help excavate the bones not long after.

“They’re the local recovery team that we utilize and use them, and I want to publicly thank them for their service. They’re experts at doing this, and they volunteered to come out and help us retrieve these bones,” Sharrett said.

He said it’s too early in the investigation to determine if the remains were male or female.

“At this point, it appears to be the remains of one individual,” Sharrett said. “We won’t know for sure, over the next couple of days, until we get the exhumation done, but this does not appear to be a fresh exhumation; these bones appear to have been there for quite a while.”

Frisby said he was not sure when he would get back to work on the house.

“It’s a freaky little farm, it’s really weird,” Frisby said.

After the bones are collected, investigators will take them to a forensic anthropologist.

It is unclear how long it will take to identify who these bones belonged to.

News Center 7 will continue to follow this story.

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