Overview
- Michael Chadwick Fry, 41, was arrested on a Bartonville warrant served with FBI assistance and booked on two abuse-of-a-corpse counts and a felony evidence-tampering charge.
- An affidavit says Fry posted YouTube footage of himself tossing a closed white bucket into the FBI’s Dallas field office and separately displaying a skull he called “Elizabeth Virginia Lyon.”
- FBI personnel reported the bucket contained numerous human bones, which authorities submitted for laboratory analysis.
- Investigators say Fry is tied to an urn stolen from an Oklahoma City cemetery and to evidence that a coffin was removed from a Denton mausoleum.
- Jail records on Sunday showed Fry remained in custody on a $30,000 surety bond as the multi-agency investigation continues.