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Authorities in Texas performing a welfare check for a male this week found his remains inside his father's kitchen and learned he died four years ago.
Police officers in New Boston, a suburb of Texarkana, were called just after 5 p.m. Tuesday to check up on Jason McMichael, the police department said. When they arrived at the scene, they were met by his father, David McMichael.
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He told them his son died in May 2018 and that he stored the body in his kitchen.
When the officers entered the home, they found skeletal remains of a male. David McMichael, 67, was taken into custody at the scene.
The Texarkana Crime Scene unit and New Boston Police investigators got a warrant and determined the remains may be of Jason McMichael.
An autopsy has been ordered.
"The body was released to Mid-South Transport and taken to the Southwest Institute of Forensic Sciences in Dallas for Autopsy and further identification," the police department said in a news release.
The department did not disclose who requested the welfare check.
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McMichael is charged with abuse of a corpse without legal authority and is being held in the Bowie County jail.
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