The skull of a man who had been missing for eight years was discovered wearing sunglasses and sitting on the fireplace mantel of a Morgan County, Tennessee resident’s home back in March.
This week, the results of DNA tests performed by the Knox County Regional Forensics Center and the University of Tennessee Department of Anthropology confirmed that the skull belonged to a man named Junior Willie McCann.
The 79-year-old McCann reportedly went missing back in September of 2012. The resident who possessed the skull claims they got it from someone else who said they found it in the Gobey area of Morgan County in March of 2019.
The mantel from which the skull was retrieved from was located inside what was once McCann’s house. Cadaver dogs were brought in, but no other evidence of McCann’s remains were found.
WATE ABC 6 reports that Morgan County Sheriff Wayne Potter says McCann’s missing person’s report, which was filed by his brother, states that he just walked out of the house and never came back.
“According to his brother in the report, it was nothing uncommon for him to walk off from the house. He reported him four days after he’d left,” said Potter.
In a Facebook post, Morgan County District Attorney General Russell Johnson wrote, “Speculation and rumor has been that Junior Willie McCann was possibly killed by a family member who is now deceased as well.”
Anyone with information related to McCann’s mysterious death and disappearance is asked to contact the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office.
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