A Texas man was arrested last week after human remains were found at a house in Buffalo.
The Leon County Sheriff’s Office said in a vague Facebook post that they received a report of a missing person and a child on June 19. The person and child had not been seen by family since July 2022.
Deputies executed a search warrant on a property in Buffalo on October 22 and found human remains, which were “positively identified” at the University of North Texas. Michael Dean Davis Jr., 27, was later arrested where he’d been living in Laredo, nearly 400 miles from Buffalo, and charged with murder
The sheriff’s office did not say who the remains found in Buffalo belonged to or how many sets of remains were found, but later said in the same Facebook post that “multiple agencies worked together in order to coordinate the arrest of Davis and the safe recovery of a missing and endangered child.”
KGNS reported that Davis is the child’s father and said that he is believed to have killed the child’s mother.
Laredo Police made the arrest, the station said, waiting until he was outside checking his mail because he was believed to be armed and dangerous. Inside the home, officers found rifles, body armor, and gas masks. The home was in “deplorable” condition, and additional charges of child endangerment were filed.
The child is in the care of Child Protective Services, and Davis — who is believed to have lived in Laredo since leaving Buffalo in 2022 — is awaiting transfer to Leon County to face the murder charge.
The sheriff’s office did not release any further information because, it said, the investigation is “ongoing.”
