Body of missing teen Brynn Bills ‘found buried in Alpena, Michigan, backyard’ as cops probe ‘suspicious death’
THE body of missing teen Brynn Bills was found buried in an Alpena, Michigan, backyard, as cops probe suspicious death.
On Wednesday, the Michigan State Police announced that their search for a missing Bills, 18, was over after finding a body in the backyard of a home on Naylor Road in Alpena Township. Michigan, on Tuesday.
The 18-year-old was missing since early August, as her father, Guane, put out a $20,000 reward for information that could lead to his daughter’s whereabouts.
In a press conference, state police said they were executing a search warrant at the home in Alpena Township in connection with the case of Bills.
Officials said they were working based on an anonymous tip they received this past weekend.
“The tip led us to an area where we had seen that there was some fresh dirt and something that looked like it had been dug up recently. So it was easy to locate, there were several spots on the property like that, so we narrowed our search to those and that’s where we found the body,” Michigan State Police First Lt John Grimshaw said.
“To find the patch of dirt, it was pretty evident, so it didn’t take long to see the locations of interest to us to look, (but) it took us a long time to find the remains and to get her out of there.”
The Michigan State Police made the connection by matching tattoos on the body with those described on Bills.
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State police said the home belongs to Joshua Wirgau, 34, who is now being called a person of interest in the case.
Wirgau is currently housed in the Alpena County Jail on charges of unlawful imprisonment and felonious assault in connection with an unrelated incident that took place Monday.
“He is a person of interest, obviously. He is the homeowner where there was a deceased body found on it, so he is a person of interest. He has an attorney,” Grimshaw said.
An autopsy is underway to verify the identification of the body fully.
Authorities have yet to determine a cause of death.
State police are calling the death suspicious at this point as part of a criminal investigation.
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