Mystery of skeletal remains found in kitchen as dad ‘kept dead son’s body for FOUR YEARS’

A TEXAS man was arrested and booked at the Bi-State Jail in Texarkana Wednesday after he was suspected of keeping his son’s remains in his kitchen for nearly four years.

David McMichael, 67, was charged with abuse of a corpse, said authorities.

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David McMichael, 67, was charged with abuse of a corpse after police found skeletal remains in his home[/caption]

Police arrived at the home in New Boston on a welfare check on Tuesday, March 29.

When authorities asked McMichael if he knew why they were at the house, the man reported answered that it was because of the body in his kitchen.

McMichael said that it was the body of his adult son who died in May 2018, read a statement from the New Boston Police.

“The Officers on scene made entry into the home and found the skeletal remains of a male,” read the statement on Facebook.

“A short time later, David McMichael was then taken into custody without issue.”

Investigators and members of the Texarkana crime scene unit “…determined that the body was that of a male, possibly Jason McMichael.”

The of McMichael’s son or how he died was not mentioned in the statement.

The body has been released to Mid-South Transport and is en route to the South Institute of Forensic Sciences in Dallas for an autopsy and further identification.

An investigation is still ongoing.

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McMichael told police that he had kept his son’s body in the kitchen following the man’s death in May 2018[/caption]