Identified! FL, Jacksonville, Skeletal Remains, UnK age, Utsey Road area, 11 July 2019-Corbin Odell Johnson

[Cagle]

Officers with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office are investigating after a man came across skeletal remains in a rural area of Northwest Jacksonville on Thursday evening.

The remains were found around 6:10 p.m. in a wooded area of Utsey Road. According to the Sheriff's Office, a man was working outside a home when he came across the remains and called police.

Homicide detectives responded to the scene and they believe the remains are human, the Sheriff's Office said.

Joseph Cummings, the man who found the remains, said he was clearing land with a brush hog when he made the grisly discovery.

"I hit a plastic bag, so I backed up a little bit to get the plastic bag from my mower and glanced over and happened to notice there was a skull laying there," Cummings said. "I just shut everything down. Shut my tractor down. Walked away from it."

The medical exmainer is testing the remains to determine the identity. It's unclear how long the remains were there.

Police officers planned on being at the scene throughout the night.

Man finds human remains while clearing land in wooded area

 

[TTF14]

Yikes! A skull in a trash bag does not sound like a natural death....

 

[Bit of hope]

 

[Gardener1850]

@dixiegirl1035 posted about this on Dustin Marshall's thread:
FL - FL - Dustin Matthew Marshall, 28, Jacksonville, 14 Feb 2019

My first thought was Joleen Cummings: FL - FL - Joleen Cummings, 34, Nassau County, 12 May 2018 *ARREST*

There are many missing from the area.
I hope the family of a missing person will soon be getting closure and justice.

 

[Cagle]

Yeah I did a search and found lots of possible threads...hopefully someone will get closure soon.

 

[Cagle]

Law enforcement dogs could be seen searching a rural area of Northwest Jacksonville the day after skeletal remains that police believed to be human were found in the woods.

Sky 4 aerials showed at least two cadaver dogs and multiple homicide detectives off Utsey Road near the intersection of Pritchard and Imeson roads.

Law enforcement dogs search wooded area where remains found

 

[YaYa_521]

Foul play suspected in discovery of human remains in wooded area

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Foul play is suspected in the discovery of human remains in a wooded area of Northwest Jacksonville, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said Friday.

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Lt. Craig Waldrup said at a news briefing Friday afternoon that they believe there is only one set of remains, though it's still unclear how long the remains have been there. He said foul play is suspected because of the way the body was positioned.

The discovery could be tied to a cold case investigation, but Waldrup would not say which one.

 

[mrsmmm]

@dixiegirl1035 posted about this on Dustin Marshall's thread:
FL - FL - Dustin Matthew Marshall, 28, Jacksonville, 14 Feb 2019

My first thought was Joleen Cummings: FL - FL - Joleen Cummings, 34, Nassau County, 12 May 2018 *ARREST*

There are many missing from the area.
I hope the family of a missing person will soon be getting closure and justice.

I immediately thought of Joleen too.

 

[Bit of hope]

Foul play suspected in discovery of human remains in wooded area

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Foul play is suspected in the discovery of human remains in a wooded area of Northwest Jacksonville, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said Friday.

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Lt. Craig Waldrup said at a news briefing Friday afternoon that they believe there is only one set of remains, though it's still unclear how long the remains have been there. He said foul play is suspected because of the way the body was positioned.

The discovery could be tied to a cold case investigation, but Waldrup would not say which one.

Interesting they think this could be tied to a cold case. There are ton of missing persons cases from Jacksonville, Fl. The Charley Project comes up with approx. 70.

 

[Gardener1850]

Some more details and a blurry picture of the skull (WARNING GRAPHIC photo below text):

Joseph Cummings, who lives across the street, made the grisly discovery. He told News4Jax he was clearing land with a brush hog when he found bones wrapped around a trap inside a bag.

"I wound up running over a bag and when I ran over the bag, it uncovered all the bones," Cummings said Friday. "The bag was black, but the tarp was green. It was a green tarp inside of a black bag it looked like ... The body was wrapped in the tarp, and the tarp and body were put in a black bag."

He said he immediately thought to call the police.

"My first reaction was to stop everything and don't tear up anything more than I already have," he said. "The whole body was there. Ribs, femur, skull -- every bit of it."

Cummings added that he had just been hired last week to cut the grass and brush at the property.

"It was the first time I cut that place," he said.

Foul play suspected in discovery of human remains in wooded area

 

[Gardener1850]

Video of yesterday's presser: JSO holds 2 p.m. news conference after human skeletal remains found in NW Jacksonville

 

[Bethan]

Heather Elvis???

Just seen this thread, not yet caught up.

( Access denied to video of presser, as I’m following from the UK......please tell me if it contained important information).

First thought however.......could this be Heather Elvis...as appears to me to be directly en route from Myrtle Beach & Disney World ( forgive my geography if I’m wrong!)
Also ‘Skeletal’ remains, presumably not a recent ‘disposal’

Heather Elvis captured my heart, when she disappeared in December 2013.

I live in hope that one day she will be found, for the sake of her grieving family & friends, & that her murderers brought to justice for their abhorrent crime.

 

[BlueBerry101]

Interesting they think this could be tied to a cold case. There are ton of missing persons cases from Jacksonville, Fl. The Charley Project comes up with approx. 70.

Purely speculation here but I wonder if some of the other evidence they have found at the scene suggests that it may be linked to a specific cold case?

 

[Jax49]

Jacksonville mother of missing son visits site of human remains found in NW Jacksonville

A Jacksonville mom with a missing child was among the people who visited the area where police are investigating human skeletal remains found this week.

On June 26, 2007, Christy Davis' son, Michael Austin Davis, was last seen at the Jax Jewelry and Pawn in the 5200 block of Blanding Boulevard near 103rd Street around 12:30 pm.

 

[Bit of hope]

Jacksonville mother of missing son visits site of human remains found in NW Jacksonville

Michael Austin Davis bought a shotgun and was depressed. Maybe he took his own life, but to me it seems unlikely he would choose that particular place. There are woods all around... It still could be him, only if he was killed an dumped there. The remains were in a bag, wrapped in a tarp.

 

[Bit of hope]

Video of yesterday's presser: JSO holds 2 p.m. news conference after human skeletal remains found in NW Jacksonville

Did they say something about the sex of the remains?

 

[dixiegirl1035]

Did they say something about the sex of the remains?

Was said to be Undetermined at the time of the press conference.

 

[Gardener1850]

Jacksonville mother of missing son visits site of human remains found in NW Jacksonville

Here's Michael's thread: FL - FL - Michael 'Austin' Davis, 26, Jacksonville, 26 June 2007

 

[BlueBerry101]

Hopefully this will bring some closure to the family, and it won't take months to get some answers. Also, hope the guy that was hired to clear the land in that area isn't plagued by nightmares and/or sleepless nights after finding these remains in such a horrific way.

 

[BlueBerry101]

Jacksonville mother of missing son visits site of human remains found in NW Jacksonville

Prayers for this Mother. That she will get some answers soon.