{"id":415864,"date":"2026-07-29T00:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/415864\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T00:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:08:09","slug":"human-remains-found-in-wooded-area-near-oakland-county-circuit-court-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/415864\/","title":{"rendered":"Human remains found in wooded area near Oakland County Circuit Court building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PONTIAC, Mich. (WXYZ) \u2014 The Oakland County Sheriff\u2019s Office said human remains were discovered outside the county\u2019s circuit court building in Pontiac on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cms-textAlign-center\">Watch Jolie Sherman&#8217;s video report: <\/p>\n<p>Human remains found in wooded area near Oakland County Circuit Court building<\/p>\n<p>According to the sheriff\u2019s office, the remains were found in a wooded area south of the Oakland County Circuit Court building in \u201can advanced state of decomposition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The human remains appear to belong to an adult male, according to the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say a patient identification bracelet was recovered, and investigators are currently working to identify the related medical facility and the deceased.<\/p>\n<p>Stay with <a class=\"Link\" href=\"http:\/\/WXYZ.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WXYZ.com<\/a> for updates on this developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PONTIAC, Mich. (WXYZ) \u2014 The Oakland County Sheriff\u2019s Office said human remains were discovered outside the county\u2019s circuit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[4551,102774,794,4981,4553,143,166387,145,144,4552],"class_list":["post-415864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-7-action-news","tag-7-news-detroit","tag-detroit","tag-human-remains","tag-metro-detroit","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county-circuit-court-building","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-wxyz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}