DAYTON — Two people discovered badly decomposed human remains while doing a walkthrough of a home for sale in Ohio, police told news outlets.
The prospective homebuyers went to check out the house at about 10 a.m. Wednesday, September 10, Dayton police told the Dayton Daily News. But upon entering through a back door, the pair was met with human remains, according to police.
The body has been decomposing for some time, police told WDTN, describing the remains as “skeletal.” Neighbor Donald Arnold said he noticed a foul smell coming from the home in recent weeks but decided it was probably a dead animal and thought nothing of it, WHIO reported. The house has been vacant for quite awhile, Arnold added. The owner of the house lives in a different county and bought the property through a sheriff’s auction in June, the station reported. The owner said he’s visited the house only once, and while he “noticed bones in the house,” he assumed they were animal bones.
Authorities are investigating, and the remains have been sent to the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office for examination and identification, WDTN reported.
By MITCHELL WILLETTS/McClatchy News
Mitchell Willetts is a real-time news reporter covering the central U.S. for McClatchy. He is a University of Oklahoma graduate and outdoors enthusiast living in Texas.
