NEW BOSTON, Texas (KETK) — A person accused of retaining his son’s corpse in his house for nearly 4 years pleaded guilty on Tuesday.
67-year-old David McMichael was arrested in March at his New Boston house for the alleged abuse of his son’s corpse.
McMichael was arrested on March 29 when police got here by to conduct a welfare test. It was there that police found a useless physique within the kitchen, which McMichael reportedly advised them was his son who died in May of 2018. Police mentioned that the stays have been skeletal.
Police described their encounter with McMichael as “very accommodating” as he “let them in” and “told them what was going on.”
Neighbors additionally advised police that McMichael saved to himself and neither he nor his son Jason have been seen a lot.
He was booked into the Bi-State Jail the next day with the cost of abuse of a corpse, the place he has remained till he made his guilty plea on Tuesday, after which he was launched as he awaits sentencing.
According to judicial data, the decide of the 202nd District Court ordered a presentence investigation, resetting the sentencing for June 14.