The situation is indeed unsettling.
A troubled grave robber in Texas recorded himself tossing human remains over a fence at an FBI field office and uploaded the footage to YouTube, according to police reports.
Michael Chadwick Fry, 41, from Bartonville, Texas, claimed he threw the bucket of bones to “summon” federal agents after removing the remains from a mausoleum, as stated by the Bartonville Police Department.
He is now charged with two counts of abuse of a corpse and one count of tampering with evidence with the intent to impair a human corpse, police added.
Police were alerted on Monday when Fry’s mother reported that he had visited her home requesting money for a U-Haul, claiming he “had a body that needed to be moved.” He became angry during the phone conversation and left before police arrived, according to an arrest warrant obtained by KDFW.
“Soon after, investigators received reliable information from FBI Special Agents indicating that Fry had thrown a bucket containing human bones over the fence of the FBI Dallas Field Office,” stated the arrest warrant.
Fry documented his alleged act in a video titled, “We send Elizabeth over the FBI fence to summon them by force,” which he posted on YouTube, officials said.
In the video, Fry is seen speaking to someone behind a window outside the FBI office, seeking a “status check” on an investigation concerning “what happened to me and my dead family and friends.”
After returning to his vehicle, Fry retrieves a bucket containing the alleged remains from the trunk and throws it over the fence before driving away.
“There’s more videos coming. We’re going to take bones all over the place. I got more,” Fry stated in the video as he left.
According to police, Fry is also accused of stealing an urn from a cemetery in Oklahoma City in February and raiding another mausoleum in Denton, Texas.
He reportedly searched for three cemeteries in Texas and Oklahoma using the GPS in his mother’s car.
He referred to the contents of the bucket as “Elizabeth Virginia Lyon,” as stated in the affidavit.
Authorities are conducting DNA tests to identify the bones.
Fry has a substantial criminal record, according to police.
In 2018, he drove his car into the KDFW studios in downtown Dallas, leaving a bright orange duffel bag that led to a bomb squad response.
Reports suggest he was upset that police had shot his friend.
Fry is currently held in the Denton County Jail on a $30,000 bond.
