Police say human remains of 4 people were found at Genesee Co. home.
GENESEE COUNTY, MI. (WJRT-TV) Investigators went to a property in northern Genesee County today as evidence mounts that a suspected serial killer once owned the land.
It was last March when work crews at a recently purchased home discovered human remains.
Investigators now confirm that the remains of four people were found on this Willard Road property, and police are searching a second property belonging to the now deceased man.
The man who now owns the property on Harris Road in Forest Township says he bought the land about five to six years ago from Duane Reynolds.
Reynolds also owned the Willard Road home where these human remains were found. The two properties are approximately a kilometer and a half apart.
Several members of the Michigan State Police went to this property in rural Genesee County, a property once owned by Duane Reynolds. Ed Brown says he purchased the property from Reynolds a few years ago and is allowing police to conduct this search of the land.
“If there’s anything, I want people to have closure for the families, they can do whatever they need to do,” Brown said.
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 also belonged to Reynolds.
Reynolds died in December 2024, and the first set of remains were found by a contractor months later who was repairing the house.
It was April when we reported that police had been in contact with Reynolds in 2017. He arrested a woman in Flint who was holding a sign saying she was homeless.
The heavily redacted reports indicate the woman fled from a trailer at Reynolds’ property on Harris Road. The woman, who was naked, ran to a nearby house and told a resident: “There is a man there.”
According to the police report, Reynolds was questioned and a warrant request was submitted, but it was denied because there was no complainant or victim.
Nine years later, the remains of four people are found in Reynolds’ former home and police are searching the land from which the woman fled in 2017.
Brown was asked if he thought a serial killer once owned this land.
“Oh hell, yeah, yeah, that guy had something wrong with him, he was a serial killer,” he says.
Brown said he knew Reynolds, but never suspected anything like that.
“No one likes it, but what are you going to do, if you don’t know, you don’t know, and that’s probably why they get away with it because they look like a normal person like everyone else.”
Michigan State Police say they are still working to positively identify the four people whose remains were found at this 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 Human Identification Center, to scientifically identify human remains through a grant from the National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) program.
Again, it’s unclear if anything was found during Wednesday’s search on Harris Road.
ABC12 contacted a relative of Duane Reynolds and that person had no comment.
