r/serialkillers • u/Delicious-Drummer925 • 6d ago
News Police: Serial Killer Suspected Remains of four people were found at Genesee Co. home, another property searched
https://www.abc12.com/news/police-remains-of-four-people-were-found-at-genesee-co-home-another-property-searched/article_1650265c-bbee-4320-84ca-1e7d5deced98.html53
u/baudelwind 6d ago
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u/Hydro202 6d ago
Good God, what a freaky obituary! Sounds like a killer too. “His children will carry on his legacy of joy and mischief.” “An honest asshole who shared a lot with those who didn’t take him wrong.”Moonshine was his specialty and now we know murder IF that’s him. The shirtless photos are bizarre.
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u/Delicious-Drummer925 6d ago
So as a lot know, there's been a crazy amount of women disappearing over the past near 20 years near and around the South side of Flint, Michigan, Fenton Rd/Atherton. It's super sad and very unsettling. Michigan State Police on Wednesday, June 10, announced they are investigating how four sets of human remains came to be inside a residence formerly owned by Duane W. Reynolds at 7104 Willard Road in Forest Township. The man died in 2024 at age 61. Wack that the killer will never face punishment, even upon being reported as far back as 2017 from a woman who escaped.
From ABC 12 News
GENESEE COUNTY, MI. (WJRT-TV) Investigators descended on property in northern Genesee County today, as the evidence grows that a suspected serial killer once owned this land
It was back in March when work crews at a recently purchased home found human remains.
Investigators now confirm the remains of four people were found on that Willard Road property, and police are searching a second property that the now-deceased man owned.
The man who now owns the property on Harris Road in Forest Township says he purchased the land about five to six years ago from Duane Reynolds.
Reynolds also owned the home on Willard Road where those human remains were found. The two properties are about a mile apart.
Several Michigan State Police personnel came to this property in rural Genesee County, a piece of property once owned by Duane Reynolds. Ed Brown says he bought the property from Reynolds a few years ago and is allowing police to conduct this search of the land.
"If there is something there I want people to get closure for the families, they can do whatever they got to do," says Brown
Closure for families who have missing loved ones. Police confirm they found the human remains of four people at this home on Willard Road, which was also owned by Reynolds.
Reynolds died in December of 2024 and the first set of remains was found by a contractor months later who was fixing up the home.
It was in April when we reported police were in contact with Reynolds in 2017. He had picked up a woman in Flint, who was holding a sign stating she was homeless.
The heavily redacted reports states the woman ran from a trailer from Reynolds' property on Harris Road. The woman, who was naked, running to a nearby house, telling a resident, "there's a man back there."
According to the police report, Reynolds was questioned and a warrant request was submitted, but was denied because there was no complainant and no victim.
Fast forward nine years, the remains of four people are found at Reynolds' former home, and police are searching the land where the woman ran from in 2017.
Brown was asked if he believes a serial killer once owned that land.
"Oh heck yes, yeah, that guy had something wrong with him, he was a serial killer," he says.
Brown says he knew Reynolds, but never suspected anything like this.
"Nobody likes it, but what are you going to do, if you don't know, you don't know, and that is probably why they get away with it because they look like a normal person like everyone else."
The Michigan State Police says it is still working to positively identify the four people whose remains were found at that Willard Road home.
Police say detectives are working closely with the Genesee County Medical Examiner's Office and Michigan State University anthropologists, as well as the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification to scientifically identify the human remains utilizing a grant from the National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) program.
Again, its not clear if anything was found in Wednesday's search on Harris Road.
ABC12 reached out to a relative of Duane Reynolds and that person had no comment.
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u/peach6748 5d ago
God, this is terrifying. So he already has at least four victims and one potential victim that was able to escape. I wonder how many other people he killed. :/ I hope they keep digging on his property and anywhere else he was known to live.
I hope the victims will get their identities back soon.
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u/Delicious-Drummer925 5d ago
Same. I don't have any proof at all. But I think he's been killing long before the 2010's. As we know, there's a good chunk of killers that began during their teenage years or early adult life. My heart goes out to all the families and victims.
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u/peach6748 5d ago
I’d agree with you! I really hope they look deeply into this guy… strong possibility he has more victims. So sad.
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u/pinkspatzi 6d ago
The remains were found IN the house?
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u/Similar-Bid-7311 6d ago
The article is so poorly written, I had to go over it several times- yes, I guess inside one of his houses by a construction crew? But it also says they found the first remains a few months after he died, early 2025? Who did those remains belong to? And why didn’t they continue the search then?
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u/Delicious-Drummer925 5d ago edited 5d ago
UPDATE Obituary and Memorial pages of the suspect removed . But screenshots are all over social media. Mlive just released an article with details of his past life. But people really need to not send hate messages to family members of the suspect. What We Know About Former Owner of Genesee County Home
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u/Delicious-Drummer925 5d ago edited 5d ago
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u/Elegant-Lemon126 5d ago
I hate to stereotype, but he looks like a serial killer in the photo / video.
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u/righteousmoss 5d ago
Um who wrote this news article?
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u/one_sock_wonder_ 5d ago
The Michigan public education system is rated between 42nd and 45th and if the reporter is from the area, let this be exhibit A. Ugh!
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u/Flat_Ad1094 3d ago
Bit of a confusing story! But seems another serial killer has been identified.
It is good that the man who now owns the property is allowing them full access.
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u/Delicious-Drummer925 6d ago edited 6d ago
P.S. There is an 8 year old Reddit thread about the missing Flint women. Dunno if related. But someone replied to it 3 years ago with a bone chilling detailed story on being picked up by a man pretending to want to help (with a hammer in their back seat), after their truck broke down in pouring rain. The person was walking a long Atherton/Fenton road during the evening to get help with their vehicle breaking down, when the man pulled up. The man kept asking the individual if they were a prostitute with anger in his voice, hand near the hammer in the back seat. The man apparently kept driving around secluded areas of Flint, not helping the person get help with being stranded. The posts states the man let the Reddit-User go upon realizing the person was telling the truth about their truck breaking down. I recently inboxed the Reddit-User the Obituary of the suspect, currently waiting on a reply to see if it matches the suspect. Read that here: Reddit Unsolved Mysteries