GREENE COUNTY — Forensic anthropologists are working to identify whose remains were found under a Greene County porch.
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As reported on News Center 7 at 5, the investigation started around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in the area of U.S. 68 and Clifton Road in Xenia Township.
“We’re taking off a front porch, and we found some bones. They look like they could be human, they’re old,” a 911 caller told dispatchers.
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.
“Once we get down to bones, typically that’s where you’re going towards DNA,” said Kaitlyn Nicholson, quality manager at the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office.
Doctors confirmed the remains found were human.
Workers from Texas Equusearch and Greene County deputies gathered all remains available for potential identification.
“Depending on the condition of the remains, we could do it here, with our Rapid DNA,” Nicholson said.
The machine can identify a body in 90 minutes, but it has limitations.
“If it’s more degraded or if it’s been out in the soil a longer period of time, that may be beyond what we can do here, so that’s when we would send it to (Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation),” Nicholson.
The Greene County Coroner said he believes this is an older case, not a recent missing person’s case.
News Center 7 spoke with a police investigator about the difficulty of solving a missing person’s case.
“You have a small number of people that know what happened to the missing person, and they don’t come forward and be honest about it, so they’re very difficult,” Maj. Brian Johns, with Dayton police, said.
There is no timeline for when an identification might be made.
We will continue to follow this story.
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