Authorities on Thursday found a man’s remains eight feet under a home in Mobile County, and his body may have been dumped underneath the abandoned home more than two years ago.
The grisly discovery was made Thursday morning in the Georgetown community in western Mobile County, Sgt. Mark Bailey with the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office told Fox 10.
The man’s remains, which have yet to be identified, were found eight feet underneath the home.
“In my 23 years in law enforcement, I’ve never seen a body disposed of under a structure and then the floor put back, and buried at that depth,” Bailey said, according to Fox 10. “That’s almost deeper than a grave at a cemetery.”
Bailey told WKRG that a tipster alerted authorities to the body.
“The floor was taken up… the body was buried and the floor was replaced,” he told the outlet. “No one would ever think to look under the house of an abandoned residence. We appreciate the information that led us here. Anyone else that we have not interviewed that may have information would be helpful to us.”
Authorities believe the body was buried around December 2020.
“The remains have been here going on 14 months so there is a good bit of decomposition and other factor that just make identification impossible at this time,” Bailey said.
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