{"id":214818,"date":"2026-03-21T23:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T23:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/214818\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T23:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T23:06:08","slug":"man-dumped-bucket-of-human-remains-over-fence-at-fbi-dallas-field-office-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/214818\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dumped bucket of human remains over fence at FBI Dallas field office"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newly released court documents detail how investigators say a man accused in the theft of human remains<\/a> from a Denton<\/a> cemetery told a family member he needed to move a body and threw a bucket of remains over a fence at the FBI’s Dallas field office.<\/p>\n

According to an arrest affidavit, Michael Chadwick Fry, 41, told his mother on March 16 that he needed money to rent a U-Haul because he “had a body that needed to be moved.” When she questioned him, Fry became irate and left the home, prompting a 911 call, the affidavit states.<\/p>\n

Bartonville police responded to the residence in the 500 block of Oakwood Drive and issued a bulletin to nearby agencies for possible suspicious activity at U-Haul locations.<\/p>\n

Investigators said Fry posted a video on YouTube recorded outside the FBI’s Dallas field office. In the video, titled “We send Elizabeth over the FBI fence to summon them by force,” Fry throws a closed white bucket over a fence into the facility’s parking lot, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n

An FBI agent told investigators the bucket contained numerous bones that appeared to be human. The remains are awaiting further forensic analysis, the document states.<\/p>\n

Additional videos reviewed by investigators show Fry holding what appears to be a human skull at the Bartonville residence. The skull is described as having dirt, hair and other organic material still attached.<\/p>\n

In the videos, Fry refers to the remains as “Elizabeth Virginia Lyon.” Investigators believe the skull and the bones recovered at the FBI facility are connected, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n

The affidavit states Fry’s mother found recent GPS searches for cemeteries in Arlington and Oklahoma City in a vehicle he drives. She also reported finding a shovel at the residence that was not there before and said Fry had begun locking a shed in the backyard- behavior she described as unusual.<\/p>\n

Authorities allege Fry knowingly carried away or treated human remains in an offensive manner without legal authority, supporting a charge of abuse of a corpse, a state jail felony.<\/p>\n

The investigation began after remains recovered during a separate Bartonville police case were believed to have come from the IOOF Cemetery in Denton. A search of the cemetery led officers to a damaged mausoleum where remains were missing.<\/p>\n

Fry has been arrested in connection with the case. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newly released court documents detail how investigators say a man accused in the theft of human remains from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[19780,102,104,103,3646,84016,9312,64718,17850,84014,84015],"class_list":["post-214818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-affidavit","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-fbi","tag-fry","tag-human-remains","tag-human-skull","tag-investigators","tag-michael-chadwick-fry","tag-police-vehicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}