{"id":301743,"date":"2026-06-09T20:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301743\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T20:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:44:07","slug":"woman-believes-bones-discovered-on-lincrest-drive-belong-to-her-father-missing-since-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301743\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman believes bones discovered on Lincrest Drive belong to her father, missing since 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 A Jacksonville woman came forward after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/06\/04\/jso-on-the-scene-of-an-investigation-on-lincrest-drive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/06\/04\/jso-on-the-scene-of-an-investigation-on-lincrest-drive\/\">human remains were discovered<\/a> on a Northside street, saying she believes the bones belong to her father, who has been missing for more than two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Shateria Porter filed a missing person report for her father, Roderick Porter, in March 2024. She said he lived in the same house on Lincrest Drive where investigators uncovered the trail of human bones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Porter said she learned about the discovery from a family message late in the evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">\u201cI was at home. It was late in the evening. It was around 9:23 p.m. I got a message from a family member on my father\u2019s side, and they just asked me had I seen the news,\u201d Porter said. \u201cI instantly responded, \u2018The news about what?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">She said she searched online and immediately felt a connection to the story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">\u201cI just Googled and seen there were remains in the yard, and before I even knew the address, I just felt that it was my dad,\u201d Porter said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office uncovered the human remains one day before Porter spoke out. Investigators told News4JAX the identification process could take months, if not years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">JSO has not confirmed whether the remains belong to Roderick Porter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Anyone with information about this case is asked to contact JSO at 904-630-0500.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 A Jacksonville woman came forward after human remains were discovered on a Northside street, saying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-301743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}