Twin brothers were arrested after police in Barrow County uncovered a body Monday that was placed in a plastic container, encased in concrete and buried in the ground.
The remains had not been identified Monday night but are believed to be those of a man reported missing from Pensacola, Fla., nearly a month ago, Dennis Dorsey, Winder police chief, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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Two brothers were arrested and charged with concealing a death, Dorsey said. The 31-year-old men, Christopher and William Cormier, could face additional charges pending the outcome of the investigation.
“We don’t even have a cause of death yet,” Dorsey said by phone Monday night. “If the autopsy shows what we expect it will show, the charges could be upgraded.”
Dorsey said his department received a call Monday morning from the Pensacola Police Department regarding a 30-year-old man missing since Sept. 13. The missing man, whose name was not released, was last seen with the Cormiers, according to police.
The brothers, who previously lived in Pensacola, told neighbors they were moving to Georgia, and the missing man was coming along, Dorsey said.
“They showed up at the father’s address about three weeks ago,” Dorsey said.
But the brothers’ friend was not with them, Dorsey said. The two told their father, the owner of the home, that their friend had moved somewhere else, the chief said.
The Cormiers also told their father that their friend’s dog had died, and they planned to bury it in the backyard of the family home, in the 200 block of Sixth Avenue in Winder, Dorsey said.
“They claimed they buried the dog,” Dorsey said.
Investigators arrived at the home Monday, executed a search warrant and, in the backyard, spotted an area where something had been buried, Dorsey said.
It wasn’t a dog. With heavy machinery owned by the city, investigators unearthed a large plastic container that had been encased in concrete, Dorsey said. By cutting around the bottom of the container, investigators found the human remains, he said.
The GBI and Pensacola police were alerted to the findings, and both agencies are expected to assist Winder police with the investigation, Dorsey said.
An autopsy will be conducted by the GBI to determine the person’s identity and a cause of death, and investigators from Pensacola were en route to Barrow County.
“We transported the large block of concrete with the body enclosed to the crime lab,” Dorsey said.
Investigators said they do not believe the Cormiers’ father will face charges.
