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Indianapolis Star: A final call in 1988, bones in a cornfield and a 31-year mystery. The Michael Davis story

September 6, 2024 in Recent Media Coverage

The Johnson County Coroners, Greenwood PD, the University of Indianapolis, and the representatives from the Othram Forensic DNA Testing Laboratory hold a press conference to announce the Identification of remains discovered on Otte Golf Course in Greenwood Ind. on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024 in Greenwood Indiana. Davis's remains were discovered by children in 1991. Michelle Pemberton/IndyStar

In 1991 a group of kids were playing in a cornfield when one of them found a pile of bones hidden in the fields. They put them back after showing their parents thinking they belonged to a dead animal.

It wasn’t until 1993 after the same group of kids found another bone that adults took notice and the Greenwood Police Department started a three-decade-long investigation to try and discover the identity of Michael Benjamin Davis. [continue reading]